I’m also a newbie of sorts, but as
far as I know, this is how it is:
Dissectors can either be part of the Ethereal
main program (most common), and if you want to use some dissector that isn’t
part of the latest official build, try getting hold of a more recent build or
compile it yourself.
Or, the dissector can be a plugin for Ethereal.
In that case it can be added to your current installation without too much
trouble (provided you and the plugin dev. Is using the same version of
ethereal)
Also, I believe not all systems that
Ethereal can run on supports plugins.
Where you can find Jeremy’s
dissector is completely up to Jeremey. Whether he has been kind enough to put
it somewhere easily reachable, or if he’s keeping it to himself.
Hope this helped.
Erik
From: ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Lane, Frank L
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 2:36
PM
To: Ethereal development
Subject: [Ethereal-dev] DIS
protocol dissector question
Hi List,
I’m a newbie so please excuse any
unintentional faux pas. Earlier today I noticed some traffic in this
list’s archives regarding a DIS protocol dissector. The message I
saw was from a developer named Jeremy Oueller (please forgive spelling of last
name). To the best of my understanding Jeremy was asking if his dissector
was being included in distributions. I lost the thread at that point and
couldn’t find any follow ups. I could use this dissector today.
Now to show my woeful ignorance, is a
dissector a flat file (i.e. like ASCII text, or XML) that can easily be
downloaded on my system? How can I find Jeremy’s dissector in the
ethereal world (cvs anonymous user, …)?
Thanks,
Frank
