Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] display of TLVs in MIH protocol dissector

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

You could take a look at the CDP dissector:
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-cdp.c

It has basically the same problem, which it solves by re-using the ett 
value.

Thanks,
jaap

On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:22:51 +0530 (IST), Ankith Agarwal wrote:

> Hi
> I am writing a plugin for dissection of MIH protocol.
> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=6547
> This protocol contains all the information in form of TLVs(type 
> length
> value), also this protocol does not specify the maximum number of 
> TLVs
> inside a packet. I am confused in the display of the TLVs. I tried it
> with
> assigning a subtree to each TLV, is there any better way of doing it?
> -> Also, in the plugin I have set the number of TLV subtrees to 20, 
> but
> that is not a good way of doing it, can someone also tell me how to 
> set
> variable length subtrees in ett array.
>
> Regards
> Ankith