Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Where is the decodes as GIOP option?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:29:07 -0800
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:58:11AM -0800, Bob wrote:
> Where is the decode GIOP option.

There isn't one.

The GIOP dissector is a "heuristic" dissector, meaning that, instead of
specific TCP (or UDP) port numbers being defined as GIOP ports, the GIOP
dissector is called for any packet that's not dissected based on a port
number, and, if the beginning of the TCP segment (or UDP packet) looks like
the beginning of a GIOP message, the segment/packet is dissected as a
GIOP message.

I.e., you don't have to say "decode this port number as GIOP", and
there's no support for doing so.  You may have to say "don't decode this
port number as XXX", for some "XXX", if that port number is being used
for GIOP rather than for protocol XXX.