Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Filter for generated items

From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:01:33 -0700
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 07:36:46AM +0100, Helge Kruse wrote:

> Thank you for fixing. But since I need to deploy the DLL to existing 
> Wireshark installations, this would not help in this case. I cannot 
> force to install a specific version of Wireshark just to support my 
> dissector.

Please note that plugins are not guaranteed to work on any version of 
Wireshark other than the one it was compiled for.  Sometimes they work 
on different versions, but other times they fail (sometimes in strange 
ways) because of changes to the core Wireshark functions.