harsha ss wrote:
I am sending a detailed mail what I want to do,please give me the
guidelines.
I want to read a separate file format which is already existing.The file
format which
I want to read is not of any of the types which ethereal understands.
When i tried to read that file through the ethereal it was giving the
unknown format.
Then I went through the wiretap direcory wrote the open routine,and
read,seek_read routine.
Which reads our own file.The routines works and reads the file.
I want to do the decoding of the read packets later.Now I want to print
the packet name,
Packet_info,source and destination which is in the string format into
the summary pane.
So As you said I added the routines in dissectors with the registering
the
protocol followed by dissect_xxx function.I am calling the routines like
col_set_str
to print on the summary pane.
4. I tried to rum automake,autoconf and aclocal in dissector path but
there is no configure file so we cant.
You should run "./autogen.sh". It will run automake, autoconf, and
aclocal for you.
6. To print the information on the summary pane wether i need to
initialize any structure members
of the cinfo structure?.
No. Dissectors just do
if (check_col(pinfo->cinfo, COL_xxx))
col_set_str(pinfo->cinfo, COL_xxx, "string");
where COL_xxx is the #define for the column you're setting, and a
"col_add" routine could be used instead of "col_set_str()".
7. For the pcap files the corresponding hexdump is displayed on the
third window.Which is the routine which is responsible for printing the
hexdump in the third window.
It's done by code in "gtk/proto_draw.c". Note that dissectors do *NOT*
call routines to draw that text; the text that's drawn is just the raw
packet data, as supplied by Wiretap, or reassembled data.
8. How to add the information i read to the ethereal summary pane first.
Please tell me the routines to call.I think the column_utility routines
itself are responsible for printing on the first window of ethereal.
They're responsible for generating the data used in the summary pane.
