Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Ethereal Gripe

[John McDermott <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

So what is the goal?  A tool to create a good dissector for any protocol 
or a tool to create a reasonable (a bit better than "quick and dirty") 
dissector for lots of possible protocols.  I think the latter.  IMHO, the 
primary use of the tool would be more to implement dissectors for local 
or seldom-used protocols than to use it to try to build a new, say, H.323 
dissector.

--john

Ed Warnicke wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Andreas Sikkema wrote:
>
>
> > Ed Warnicke wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Most of these shouldn't be that hard to handle as generalized
> > > cases... but everytime I find myself saying that I think of
> > > DNS and DNS compression... there will always be oddballs...
> >
> > But those are not the kind f protocols the general ethereal user will
> > want to (quickly) add for themselves. And if they do I presume they
> > have the knowledge to add something to E
>
>
> That was roughly the point I was trying to make ( unfortunately
> not very clearly :).  Solving the general case is hard.  Solving
> a handleful of special cases that solve 90% of the problems is
> not so hard.
>
> Ed
>
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