Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] [Patches] Wiretap support for Catapult DCT2000 .outfiles

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From: "Jacques, Olivier (OpenCall Test Infra)" <olivier.jacques@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:33:10 +0200
Hi Martin,

This is great! Could you add SS7 protocols too (see .out attached)?

Thanks,
Olivier.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Martin Mathieson
> Sent: mercredi 12 avril 2006 19:14
> To: Ethereal development
> Subject: [Ethereal-dev] [Patches] Wiretap support for 
> Catapult DCT2000 .outfiles
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This attached patch and new files provide support for 
> Catapult DCT2000 .out files to wiretap and ethereal.
> 
> This wiretap support (catapult_dct2000.c+h) appends a short 
> header to each packet giving some context, and a 
> corresponding ethereal dissector
> (packet-catapult-dct2000.c) parses this before passing the 
> real payload onto an existing ethereal dissector (for 
> ethernet, ip, lapd, ppp, frame-relay,...).
> 
> For now, there is only support for saving dct2000 files in 
> their own format, although I may add support for converting 
> between dct2000 and libpcap later.
> 
> I've also attached a short capture file (test.out) used to 
> test each of the supported link-type protocols.  I know some 
> of these messages show as malformed (they are mostly taken 
> from low-level protocol tests), but they are enough to 
> illustrate/verify the mapping between DCT2000 protocols and 
> ethereal dissectors.
> 
> I've tested this with quite a few test files (I work at 
> Catapult), and reading/writing/merging works well for me.  
> I've also done some testing with mergecap and editcap (encap 
> string is "dct2000") which seems to work.  This is the first 
> wiretap module I've added, so any comments/suggestions are 
> very welcome.
> 
> Best regards,
> Martin
> 
> P.S.  the diff file contains small, unrelated RTCP dissector 
> changes, could these please be applied too...?
> 
> 
> 

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