Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] SNMP MIB module list

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From: Thomas Anders <thomas.anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:44:47 +0200
Jaap Keuter wrote:
Shouldn't the SNMP dissector substitute the colon by a semicolon on the
Win32 platform so that the translations work and a save fixes the
preferences file?

There's a related comment in epan/dissectors/packet-snmp.c saying

/* Default MIB modules to load */
/*
 * XXX - Should we try to be clever and replace colons for semicolons under
 * Windows and the converse on non-Windows systems?
 */

It looks like just noone has found the time/motivation to implement this yet. Patches appreciated. :-)


+Thomas

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