[Ethereal-dev] Help?!?

["Mckendrick, Monica K" <monica.k.mckendrick@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

 

Help…I am very new to Ethereal.  I am trying to learn more about it and make a few changes to it and I have no idea how to begin.

 

I have Ethereal up and running on a Linux machine. (Note:  I also don’t know much about Linux either)

 

I am focusing on the PDU packets on a DIS network.  I would like to change the source code to display more information about those packets, if possible.  For example, for an entity state PDU, the ethereal system will send back information such as: Entity = 76; Force ID = 0;etc.  I would like the output to tell me what the numbers mean. (i.e. Entity = 76 (whatever 76 equates to); Force ID = 0 (whatever 0 equates to); etc.

 

Is that possible to do?

 

Also, if this is possible to do, do I have to open the source code and make changes on that Linux machine?  How would I import those changes into the Ethereal application? 

 

Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.