[Ethereal-users] Ethereal's Architecture

["darren" <teodarren@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Can anyone explain to me how ethereal decodes simply?

I am very impressed with the idea of the whole project and would like to
learn how it functions as a whole.

In particular:

1) 	How does it decide which protocol-layer to start decoding? 

2)	How does it decide which Packet Dissector to use?

3)	How to add new dissectors?

I have read a bit of the documentation and man files but would like to
know more from a software architecture point of view.

Any help would be great!

Thanx and regards
Darren


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