Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Amateur radio protocols

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:01:34 +0200
Richard Stearn wrote:


Greetings

I and other radio amateurs would like to use ethereal for monitoring
and analysing amateur radio data modes. Having looked through the list
of protocols supported in ethereal and the source code I have not found
any reference to any of the protocols we use.

I have also done some searching on the ethereal mail-lists and not found
any references there.

The wanted protocols are:
    ax25 (in reality a modified hdlc/sdlc not an X.25 derivitive)
    netrom
    rose
    flexnet

Specs can be provided. Testers are available. Coding effort is available.


Sounds good :-)


So my questions to the list are:

    Has there been any development effort in the past on any of the
        above protocols?


Not that I know of. You may search the list archive.



    Would dissectors for these protocols be accepted?
In general terms yes. If these protocols are useful to you they may be useful for someone else so it's a good idea to include them into Ethereal.
If the developers are very busy or the dissector itself is buggy or don't follow the rules in README.developer (e.g. not portable on all the platforms we support) it may take some effort on both sides to include them. 



To date I have read the README.dev and created an outline dissector for
ax25. Before I go any further I would like to find out if anybody on
this list is currently working on or is planning to work on these
protocols.



I don't remember anybody working on the protocols you've mentioned.

Regards, ULFL