Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] Displaying protocol types even if you don't decocde the protocol

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From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 00:58:53 +0900
Hi,

it seems that the way we handle most protocols is a little problematical,
in that we have to hard code most of the decodes.

My view is that these should be table driven. This allows us to add info
even if we cannot decode a protocol.

For example, ethertype 0x7030 is some silly Proteon thing, but I would have
to add some code if I wanted this to show up in the display ...



Regards
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