Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Dissector design advice needed

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 19:11:47 -0800 (PST)
Bryan Miller wrote:
> All that to say, I am looking for design advice and recommendations that
> might help abstract much of the repetition and make it more manageable.

If the application's stubs are generated with rpcgen, one recommendation
might be to take rpcgen and modify it to generate Ethereal dissector code
for the protocol, and use the rpcgen IDL file to generate the dissector.