Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Newbie question

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From: "Nicky Song" <nicky.song@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:28:11 +0800
Hi,

I'm new to the ethereal development. Can anyone help to answer the following questions?

1. I am sorry I didn't find the procedure on how to contribute to ethereal in the ReadMe.* files. Can someone tell me about this?  I'm interested in implementing some features in the "Wish list", how to claim?

2. Also I'd like to know whether my new function can be added into ethereal's  future release or not (it is somewhat too simple). I wrote it because of the following headache: Some H.225 signalling messages are big, so they have a good chance to be divided into two TCP packets by the OS. When this happens, the first packet will be decoded as "Q.931 [short frame]" and the second packet isn't decoded at all. So yesterday I downloaded the source code and added a new sub-menu: when clicking that menu, a dialog pops up to let you input a file name, then all the marked TCP packets (If they passed some check) will be combined into one single packet; the new packet is saved into the file you just assigned. Then open the new file, this time Ethereal can decode the H.225 message correctly.

Thanks a thousand.

Nicky