Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] How change the display of the ethertype in protocol tree

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 17:42:22 +0100
Joerg Mayer wrote:

Actually, I don't see a need for that. Ethertypes should probably be
added to the main Ethereal tree. There's only so much stuff I'm willing
to see for proprietary plugins and I don't think keeping an ethertype
secrect justifies the additional work.
I agree.

Making the ethertype public shouldn't be a real problem.

Hmmm, a secret ethertype doesn't make a lot of sense unless you're providing a secret service ;-)))

Regards, ULFL