Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Writing Decoders for Ethereal

[Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just write your dissector and register for
- a sctp.ppi and/or sctp.port
- a udp.port

After doing this your dissector will be called by the SCTp
and UDP dissector.

Best regards
Michael

On Sunday, Apr 27, 2003, at 19:18 Europe/Berlin, Erwin Rol wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 19:04, S. Faizi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am interested in writing a decoder for a proprietary protocol. This
> > proprietary protocol is carried by SCTP data chunk, and a few messages
> > are carried by UDP. I started by reading "README.developer" file in
> > code directory. Since this would be the first time I would be writing
> > a decoder for ethereal, I wanted to know if there is a better resource
> > available to get me started quickly. Is there an online tutorial etc.
>
> What i did was just take a look at other decoders, the general setup is
> the same for all of them. And really not that hard, within a few hours
> you should have a decoder framework in place. For more advanced tricks
> find a decoder that does what you need and look at its source.
>
> The source is the best tutorial there is, one of the good things of
> OpenSource.
>
>
> - Erwin
>
> > Regards,
> > Sal
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