Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] wlan dissector

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Sillaber wrote:

>     dissector_delete("wlan_mgt.tag.number",QBSS_TAG,qbss_handle);

There isn't a one-to-one correspondence between registered fields and 
dissector tables.  A dissector table that uses the value of a given 
field is *typically* given the same name, but most fields have no 
dissector table associated with them (and most fields never will), and 
some fields are associated with a table with a different name - for 
example, there's an "ethertype" table for Ethernet types, which is used 
for several fields (the type field in the Ethernet header, the protocol 
ID field in SNAP headers with an OUI of 0, etc.).

If you want to make a plugin for particular 802.11 tagged parameter, 
you'll have to modify the 802.11 dissector to have a dissector table for 
tagged parameters, and register your plugin with that table.