Re: [Ethereal-dev] [PATCH] New dissector, yet another 802.11 sniff header

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:34:42PM -0500, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> The plan is to have another DLT/ARP type for this format, but it's not
> strictly necessary -- the existing DLT_PRISM format has a
> "msgcode/msglen" pair, and the new format keeps these fields and reworks
> the rest.    Once a new DLT/ARP type is created, I'll submit another
> patch..

All Ethereal needs is a new DLT_ type.  Libpcap needs to know about the
new ARPHRD_ type, but changing it can wait.

What do you want me to call it?

> packet-prism.c has been modified to recognise the different msgcode, and
> pass it off to the packet-wlancap dissector.

That's a bit ugly - I'd prefer to just do the new DLT_ type and be done
with it.  (If not, I'd at least prefer to have "dissect_prism()" call
the wlancap dissector through a handle, rather than directly - calling
through a handle lets us hide some details of the way dissectors are
called in the Ethereal core code.)

Also, note that Makefile.nmake's DISSECTOR_SRC macro needs to be changed
as well.