Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Patch to M2UA to allow a preference for an old Draft 7 Protoc

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From: "Michael Lum" <mlum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:42:09 -0800
OK, and by falling some tags I can see that a NULL callback is allowed.

I will fix some of them.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 3:28 PM
> To: mlum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Ethereal
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Patch to M2UA to allow a preference for an
> old Draft 7 Protocol Data 1 parameter tag
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 1, 2003, at 2:51 PM, Michael Lum wrote:
> 
> > I copied the preference code I used from another dissector.
> 
> Dissectors whose preference settings include port numbers often do 
> that, so that if the port number changes the dissector will be 
> unregistered from the old port number and registered with the new port 
> number.
> 
> For dissectors that don't have a port number as a preference, it's not 
> necessary.