Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Proposing a generic tool for protocol decoder development process

[Chandrashekhar Mullaparthi <chandrashekhar.mullaparthi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

this sounds quite interesting. I'm at the moment considering writing a 
protocol dissector. Can I try your prototype?

cheers
Chandru

On 17 Mar 2005, at 10:51, neha mundra wrote:

> Hi,
>       We are Computer Engineering students studying in the final year 
> .The concept of our final year project is as follows ...
>             Network Analyzer vendors including Ethereal are working on 
> enhancing features of their products like increasing the range of 
> protocols that the analyser decodes.This entails the incorporation of 
> a new decoder to support each new protocol. Developing a protocol 
> decoder from scratch is a cumbersome task.As a solution,we propose a 
> generic tool to develop protocol decoders,by identifying and 
> exploiting characteristic patterns accross protocols.
>  
>      We have prepared a prototype which automates the process of 
> generating decoders from the protocol description specified in XML. 
> The tool has been tested successfully for HTTP,SMTP and POP3 protocol 
> decoders.
>      Your opinion,interest and suggestion about this tool would be of 
> high regard to us. Please do comment.   
>  --
> Thanks and regards,
> Neha Mundra, Neha Pattan and Aparna Rajaraman
>