Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 12103] Nordic dll dissector plugin makes Wireshark crash d

Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 01:32:10 +0000

Comment # 13 on bug 12103 from
(In reply to Stig Bjørlykke from comment #11)
> (In reply to julien STAUB from comment #7)
> > - will this solution be improved to not have this manual operation ?
> 
> The next step in the porting process would be to obtain a dedicated DLT for
> the Nordic BLE header and propose this for use in the nRFSniffer when
> connected to a supported Wireshark version.
> 
> > 1.12.x seems to have dissection problems
> > (https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/question/79845/nrf-sniffer-support-for-wireshark-v203/#90306)
> 
> This issues should be addressed, but without any bug reports it's difficult
> to guess what's being dissected wrong.  Hopefully this will be easier now
> that we have better support for nordic_ble.

That thread has the claim from David Edwin that

    [There are] Too many issues in 1.12.x, we reported a few but did not have
the resources to keep following up on it. 1.12.x should not be used.

but I can't find any bugs that appear to be from Nordic Semiconductor, and
couldn't find any emails in my mailbox from them, either.

Perhaps the problem is that their plugin was written for, and built with,
1.10.x, and that changes to the dissector API/ABI between 1.10.x and 1.12.x
mean that their plugin doesn't work correctly in 1.12.x.  If so, then, now that
the dissector is built in, that shouldn't be an issue with 2.3.x development
releases and won't be an issue with 2.4.x and later.

("Use only 1.10.x" will, over time, become a less useful response, so I'd
advise Nordic Semiconductor to find a better response, and, if they did,
indeed, report some issues, let us know where those issues were reported.)


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