Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Plugin development

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:42:27 -0800 (PST)
>   Bummer. How actively is it being explored?

Not very, right now.

> Or, more to the point, how difficult would it be to implement?

Fairly difficult.  See my recent reply in the thread on Van Jacobson
compressed PPP for *some* of the issues that have to be resolved in
order to support dissection of packets that span frames.