Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] RE: [Ethereal-users] ethereal to csv

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From: "Roger Kalden (EED)" <roger.kalden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:24:52 +0200 
Hi,

(I refer to the thread: http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200204/msg00109.html)

I know I am a bit late in this discussion (it was a thread in April), but than again I was actually interested in this already August last year.
Back than I was wondering how it would be possible to configure the output of tethereal such that one selects individual fields of different protocols. This would make post processing a lot easier. You can find my email and the response from Martin Visser here: http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200108/msg00137.html. Martin made me hope that this would be implemented, but unfortunately nobody found time, and it seems as if there is still no solution for this.
I think your new proposal looks very promising. 
My question is now what is needed to implement this. Is it possible to do this in a generic way, or is it needed to adapt all protocol dissectors? I went through the source code, but I am not so sure how generic the output is handled. I believe each dissector handles the output on its own, right? 
Has anybody started to work on this already? If somebody can point out what is needed, I can make a resource check whether I can support it.

Best Regards,
/Roger