Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Registering Dissectors

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:46:47 +0200

Ethereal user support <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 26.10.05 15:19:45:
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> Hello,  
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> I have upgraded Ethereal to V 0.10.12 and WinPcap 3.1 on Windows XP with SP1. Every time I start Ethereal I get a messages stating it is now registering dissectors. After that every thing proceed normally. Is this normal behavior? Why must it register the dissectors every time? 
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Ethereal is registering the dissectors in the meaning that it calls the initialisation functions of the various dissectors (which takes it's time for a few hundred of them).

So yes, that's normal behaviour.

Regards, ULFL

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