Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [PATCH] NFS Anonymizer tap
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From: Shehjar Tikoo <shehjart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:33:47 +1100
Guy Harris wrote:

On Mar 6, 2007, at 4:22 PM, ronnie sahlberg wrote:


Since this is so specialized, it might be better to make this into
a plugin. There should be only very minor changes required to make
it live down in ./plugins/nfsanonymizer.

While plugins are usually used for PROTOCOLS  there is nothing that
 prevents you from doing a "fake" protocol plugin that is actually
a tap. (or if there is something that would prevent plugin taps
from working it should be fixed)


We already have a plugin tap - the stats_tree tap.  It's not even a
 protocol, it's *just* a tap; plugins no longer have to be protocols.


Right, so this NFS anonymizer is already a plugin because its a tap?

If not, is it even necessary to make it a plugin? considering that it
can be run only when *-z nfsanon* is in the command line.

Regards
Shehjar