Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] sll dissector registration

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:00:21 -0800
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:30:44AM +0000, John Leach wrote:
> can anybody tell me why the sll dissector isn't registered using the
> register_dissector() function, and therefore can't be found by
> find_dissector() ?

Because nobody has yet given any reason why any other dissector would
*want* to find it.  The Linux SLL header is a top-level link-layer
header, so there's no reason to expect that a packet with that header
would be encapsulated inside another packet.