Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal and PPP (as in, the protocol, n

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:53:13 +1000
Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal and PPP (as in, the
protocol, not t he capture interface)


> > > 4. I need some assistance creating a whole new protocol decoder.
>
> > See the README.developer and README.tvbuff files in the "doc" directory
> > of the Ethereal source; if you'll be making the dissector a plugin
> > dissector rather than one compiled into Ethereal, see also
> > README.tvbuff.
>
> Since the Ethereal executables are getting quite fat ( 0.9.5 is over
> 7 megabytes for both), shouldn't we start thinking about recommending
> the developers of new protocols to start creating plugins?

Fat? depends on your view.
Some people say that; if it less than 100MB its not a capture file.

For those users, some 7MB is not that fat.

:-)

> Andreas Sikkema