Re: [ethereal-dev] Table-driven packet dissection?

[guy@xxxxxxxxxx (Guy Harris)]

> A routine is defined like:
> 
>    dissect_IP(packet, next-table, gtk-pointers it needs ...)

Note that we might want to remove knowledge of GTK from the dissect
routines, for a variety of reasons:

	1) simplifying the task of writing MxEthereal or KEthereal or
	   whatever, if somebody wants one;

	2) possibly making "tethereal"s life a bit easier;

	3) going with the scheme I've mentioned here on occasion,
	   wherein, when a capture is loaded, you go through the
	   *entire* capture in sequential order, and dissect all packets
	   in their entirety, attaching a "property list" to the packet
	   with properties corresponding to fields in the protocol and
	   instances of properties corresponding to fields in packets.