Re: [ethereal-dev] Re:

[Ashok Narayanan <ashokn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Laurent Deniel writes:
 > Jeffrey Perry wrote:
 > > 
 > > Yes, one comment. I think this is the right approach, I would suggest
 > > taking it one step farther though. If you build the parser into
 > > ethereal, then no recompiles would be needed for adding a new
 > > protocol. This is how Etherpeek on Windows works.
 > > 
 > 
 > Yes, I like this approach also.
 > 
 > I was already thinking about the handling of user-defined protocols in
 > a similar way but with direct processing in ethereal (no code generation
 > and so no recompilation - see some previous posts in mailing list).

Given that we are an Open-Source project and the source code will
always be available for compilation, is this really useful? I can see
in a closed-source project the ability for users to extend the sniffer 
without giving them the source code could be useful, but I am not sure 
how this model extends over to Open Source.

-Ashok


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