Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Older/Proprietary Protocols

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From: JonesMB <jonesmb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:28:11 -0500
>If you have a protocol spec, you could write or pay someone to write a
>ethereal dissector for it.
>
>If you know or can find out the ethernet frame type for it, I think
>you can get ethereal to dump it using a capture or display filter, but
>all you would see would be hex gibberish.

how do I write an "ethereal dissector" for a proprietary protocol I use
here.  I am getting tired of figuring out the UDP hex data to decode the
messages.  I only started using ethereal yesterday.  I have searched the
web and the archives but I couldn't find info on adding protocols to
Ethereal.  

thanks
jmb