Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5868] USB-encapsulated AT/Hayes Commands dissector
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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:04:26 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5868

--- Comment #19 from Tyson Key <tyson.key@xxxxxxxxx> 2011-04-29 09:04:22 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> (In reply to comment #10)
> > FWIW, in an ideal situation, we'd probably have a "USB CDC" (a la the USB Mass
> > Storage and HID/Hub ones) dissector that implements not only the AT commands
> > stuff, but also liaising with other dissectors (e.g. the PPP and Ethernet
> > ones)...
> > 
> > Just my 0.2p (adjusted for inflation). :)
> 
> See what I mean.  You seem to have a better feel for the USB dissector than I
> do.  I'd have to review this stuff to see if this is possible.  Unfortunately,
> I have become very busy lately so finding time to do this any time soon will be
> problematic.  Care to submit a patch that does what you describe? :)

Having thought about it, you'd have to fix the vendors who willingly ship
products that don't implement specifications fully, or deviate from them in
some way (i.e. they either don't explicitly identify the protocols that they
support, or they opt for perverse, proprietary variants of them (e.g.
Microsoft's "RNDIS Ethernet" just to be awkward) first.

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