Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Can I force data into a dissector from below ?

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From: "Michael Lum" <mlum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:28:44 -0800
Exactly.

My current building version of ethereal is 0.9.14 and I have a
modification in my copy of BSSAP to call 'heur_dissector_add()'
to the proprietary protocol.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Tuexen [mailto:Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 9:17 AM
> To: mlum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Ethereal
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Can I force data into a dissector from below
> ?
> 
> 
> How does your proprietary stack look like?
> BSSAP/prop proto/TCP/IP?
> 
> Best regards
> Michael
> 
> On Nov 3, 2003, at 17:32 Uhr, Michael Lum wrote:
> 
> > The company I work for has a proprietary protocol used to carry
> > SCCP traffic over IP.  I have a dissector for it but don't want
> > to check-it in because it is proprietary and no one else would
> > want it.
> >
> > Is there a way I can write a plugin that will attach to TCP
> > dissect and then force the data into the BSSAP dissector.
> >
> > I don't believe I can change the BSSAP dissector because it
> > will fail if the dissector below doesn't exist, right?
> >
> > The other option would be to change the BSSAP dissector to
> > a plugin so that I can replace it easily.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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