Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [PATCH] analyzing SHIM6 protocol

[Sebastien Tandel <sebastien@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think most the proto_tree_add_text could be replaced by
proto_tree_add_item which could allow (i.e. at least Sébastien Barré ;))
to perform an easy search on specific items. ;)


Regards,
Sebastien Tandel

Matthijs Mekking wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The last two months I have been working on a SHIM6 enabled version of
> Wireshark. The subject of my final thesis is about SHIM6 and I needed to
> analyze the SHIM6 communication exchange. SHIM6 is an IPv6 based
> solution for multihoming.(www.shim6.org)
>
> SHIM6 is handled as an IPv6 extension header. So I have changed the
> source and header files of packet-ipv6. I have added dissecting
> functions for different the message formats of the SHIM6 protocol.
> I also needed to change the ipproto files to add the new extension
> header. The included patch is pretty clear about that.
>
> The message formats are conform the latest draft specification of SHIM6:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-shim6-proto-07
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-shim6-failure-detection-07
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthijs Mekking
> matthijs@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> NLNetLabs Amsterdam / Radboud University Nijmegen