[Ethereal-dev] RE: [Ethereal-cvs] cvs commit: ethereal packet-ipx.c

["Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@xxxxxxx>]

Would anyone have any comments on adding a 'manuf' like set of tables for
ipx socket numbers and sap numbers?

Seems to me that it might be a good idea to establish an ethereal API that
could be used in general for this type of table lookup. 

	char *lookup_table(const char *table, const char *value);

I see there are several wired in types for ipxnet/manuf/etc. but what about
doing some sort of generalized table interface?

Plus, establish a common dir for storing those tables, and ideally,
providing some mechanism at some point to compile the tables into a
sorted/quickly-searched file from the plain text version.

For now, I was thinking it might be useful to just split the ipx saps and
socket numbers into separate source files so the entire list can be added. 

Also - I think another idea would be to support a match_strval_sorted()
routine that relies on the assumption that the array of string-vals is in
sorted order so it can do a binary search instead. That would likely speed
up dissection a fair amount for anything with a larger table. 

Thoughts?

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Neulinger [mailto:nneul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 1:20 PM
> To: ethereal-cvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ethereal-cvs] cvs commit: ethereal packet-ipx.c
> 
> 
> nneul       2001/10/08 13:20:01 CDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     .                    packet-ipx.c 
>   Log:
>   add a couple of socket numbers that seem to be consistently 
> allocated for these services
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.89      +7 -1      ethereal/packet-ipx.c
> 
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