Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Plugins@ethereal

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:33:42 -0700
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:21:11PM +0200, usiegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> i want to know more about plugins in ethereal; were to get them,

Well, there is no central collection of plugins.  Ethereal comes with a
few plugins, and there's another plugin for H.323 at

	http://sourceforge.net/projects/ethereal-h323-p/

> how to create/program them etc.

An Ethereal plugin is just a dissector for a protocol.

The only documentation we have on writing protocol dissectors is in the
"doc" directory of the Ethereal source; see "README.developer" and
"README.tvbuff", and then read "README.plugins" for a description of the
stuff to do if your dissector is a plugin dissector rather than a
built-in dissector.