Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Adding new protocols

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From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:43:43 +0900
At 04:43 PM 6/27/00 -0500, David Frascone wrote:
>
>I just wrote a plugin for the DIAMETER protocol (www.diameter.org), and I'd
>like to putback my changes.
>
>But, I do have a couple of questions:
>
>1)	DIAMETER can run on any port (it's configurable), and the most common
>	port to run on is the RADIUS port.  How can I register two protocols
>	types to the same UDP port?  (If it is a DIAMETER message, the first
>	byte is 0xfe)  For now, I'm using a secondary port, 2645.

Actually, there is another issue here. It would be useful if we could pass
information in on the command line (or in the preferences file) saying to
associate a particular protocol with a particular port. For people who are
testing their protocol implementation on a different port than correct one
no changes would be required to Ethereal to debug their code.

>Dave
>

Regards
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