[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 3, 2004, at 1:15 PM, Peter J. Creath wrote:

> Incidentally, I think the ISL glue in packet-eth.c could be moved out 
> to an heuristic sub-dissector once this patch is in place (although 
> you might then want to turn on the heuristic sub-dissectors by 
> default).

The ISL stuff should perhaps be done with a dissector table that works 
on MAC addresses; currently, we have only 32-bit unsigned integer and 
string dissector tables, but we could add support for MAC-address-based 
dissector tables, to handle protocols that, like ISL, involve non-802.3 
packets sent to particular MAC addresses.

Does your protocol send to particular multicast addresses (under the 
assumption that the intended recipients will handle those addresses 
specially and not do regular 802.3 processing on those packets), or 
does it send to unicast addresses (under the assumption that those 
recipients will somehow know that the packets aren't 802.3 packets)?  
If so, how do those recipients determine that the packet is one of your 
special packets rather than an 802.3 packet?