Ethereal already have a dissector for iSNS.
In what way is your dissector different/better than the one already in
ethereal?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Austin Boris Waters"
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 2:35 PM
Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Submitting an iSNS dissector
> Hi,
>
> I'm developing a dissector for the Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS)
> protocol that's nearing a reasonably usable state. I'm interested in
> submitting the dissector for general use, if possible.
>
> There are a few things my dissector doesn't do (and probably won't, for a
> while). Namely, it doesn't handle the iSNS authentication block (see
> spec. section 5.5), nor does it decode the values of funky attribute types
> (X.509 certificates, IKE messages, etc.) in the PDU.
>
> Also, I should note that the dissector might be slightly out of date
> because iSNS is still a work in progress. My dissector is written to be
> compliant with draft #16, released in late January, but the IETF has
> released 4 new drafts of the protocol since then (and I'm not sure exactly
> what has changed). However, network appliance and EMC apparently are
> already developing iSNS-capable devices, since they have both unofficially
> expressed interest in acquiring the code.
>
> So, how might I go about submitting my code? (Should I send a diff
> against the latest CVS?)
>
> Comments?
>
> Austin
>