Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Custom 802.1q tag type

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From: "Adalberto Lins" <alins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:15:48 -0200
Guy,

Can you point me to the reference on how I can write a dissector?
The 0x9100 headers are identical to the 0x8100! 

Thank you,
Adalberto

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 12:01 AM
>To: Adalberto Lins
>Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Custom 802.1q tag type
>
>
>On Oct 30, 2003, at 1:16 PM, Adalberto Lins wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to configure the Ethereal to identify customs tag
types
>> for 802.1q?
>
>Write a dissector to handle frames with an Ethernet type equal to the
>new tag type, and add it to Ethereal.  (I'm assuming that the VLAN
>headers aren't the same as those for 0x8100 - if they're the same as
>for 0x8100, you just modify the VLAN dissector to register for those
>Ethernet types as well.)