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

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:48:13 -0400
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:28:11PM -0500, JonesMB wrote:
> >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

Look at doc/README.developer in the Ethereal distribution.

--gilbert