Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] RADIUS 2 byte dictionary support

From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:32:40 -0700
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:52:43PM +0100, Robert Saye wrote:

> My company recently started shipping 2 byte custom dictionaries with 
> our products. I noticed in the base RADIUS dictionary file that 
> Wireshark doesn't support this yet '# we do not support 16bit 
> attribute codes yet'. Is anyone working on this, I don't want to 
> duplicate any effort, but our customers would like to be able to 
> decode their pcaps. If no one is working on this actively, do you have 
> any tips or warnings? I am an experienced developer, but a newbie to 
> Wireshark. I have my build environment ready, and have been poking 
> through the code for a few days.

I'm not aware of anyone working on this.  I haven't worked on the code 
that reads the RADIUS dictionary files, so perhaps someone else can 
provide more guidance.


Steve