On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 02:47:00PM +0200, Thomas Arthofer wrote:
> i'm expanding the features oft he PTP Dissector, but i wanted to know
> if there is a way to read a external config file for the dissector.
Perhaps UAT (User Accessible Tables) would help here. I haven't used
them though and am not sure where they are documented other than its
source files in epan/ (anyone?)
> Should I just try to add the reading of the config file to the
> dissector or is there a better solution. (I think it's a bad solution
> because it would read the config file every time a packet is received)
Right.
> Also, is there any argument against calculating a SHA1 / SHA2 hash in
> the dissector routine?
Probably not, although it should probably default to being off for
performance reasons.
> At last, is there somewhere a function reference for the dissector
> plugins (like proto_tree_add_item and so)
doc/README.developer
Steve