Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Dissector for decoding WiMax MAC protocol

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 4, 2006, at 8:56 AM, Liu Chunfang-CCL083 wrote:

> Does anyone know if there is the planning to have a dissector to  
> decode WiMax MAC protocol?

There's no Official Plan for dissectors - if somebody writes a  
dissector and contributes it, and it's good enough, it'll become part  
of Wireshark.

Bottom-layer protocols such as Ethernet are a special case, however -  
there'd need to be a way to identify those protocols based on  
"metadata" in the capture file, such as, for example, a capture type  
indication in the file header.

I assume the WiMax MAC protocol is such a protocol.  If so, then, in  
order to handle it in Wireshark, we'd have to add code in the Wiretap  
library to recognize it in some capture file format that supports it -  
and if the format you want for it is the native libpcap format, you'd  
have to send mail to tcpdump-workers@xxxxxxxxxxx to request a link- 
layer type value for WiMax.