Richard,
I would recommend that you take some times to go through Ethereal's
developer doc.
Creating a protocol dissector and maintaining it in Ethereal is a far
more easier task than implementing the actual protocol in java or C.
There are many functions that will help you to create a dissector for
your protocol in few days.
But don't start from scratch. Make sure that you base your work on
another protocol already implemented in Ethereal which is close to your
proprietary protocol (TLV family, Text family, ...).
Also, it is generally a good idea to display "unknown message, code XXX"
or "unknown parameter, code XXX, length YYY, value ZZZ" for unknown
messages and parameters, so that you can stay some versions behind in
your plugin.
Olivier.
> Honestly,
> I do not think that someone has made a java wrapper for
> ethereal's API (which BTW changes often).
>
> I do not think that it would be feasable to do.
> I do not know which licencing problems would be there.
> I believe that even if done it would be simply too slow.
>
> L
>
> On 10/19/05, Richard Drexler <R.Drexler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm just starting in working with ethereal and intend to
> make a plugin
> > for our private protocol. This protocol is completely
> implemented in
> > Java and I don't want to reimplement it in C for ethereal
> for several
> > reasons. One reason is, each time we extend our protocol we have to
> > change the plugin too.
> >
> > The Java implementation is done in a way, it would be easy
> to extend
> > it for usage with ethereal. The missing links are two
> interfaces one
> > calling some java methods and another which allows our java
> program to
> > call ethereal's functions.
> >
> > Maybe someone has done it before or expect it to do.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Richard Drexler
> >
> >
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