Re: [Ethereal-dev] question regarding protocol dissector as plugin under ethereal-0.9.15

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 7, 2003, at 9:28 AM, Parul Singla wrote:

> I'm using Redhat 8.0 on VmWare. I don't know wuts going wrong..!

Neither do I, because I'm using Mac OS X, with the appropriate tweaks 
to various files for the new plugin and, after putting the plugin 
source in a new "plugins/xxx-subiss" subdirectory, along with the 
appropriate Makefiles, I did a make and a make install, and everything 
works.

When I ran it, it printed

	Calling to register the Athena's protocol

and

	Calling proto_reg_handoff_xxx()

If it's not printing "Calling to register the Athena's protocol" when 
you run it, it will not register the protocol.

I've attached a patch with the tweaks, and a tarball with the source in 
the "plugins/xxx-subiss" directory stuff.

I'm doing this from the current CVS version, but it should work with 
standard 0.9.15 source as well.

> Could you also
> explain me the purpose of following..? why is tcp or udp port being 
> used..?

So that packets sent to or from that TCP port are dissected as the 
protocol in question.

None of that has anything to do with registering the protocol, and none 
of it is necessary for your protocol to show up in the "Edit > 
Protocols" list.  It's registering the dissector for that protocol so 
that it's called from the dissectors for *other* protocols.

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