Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] display of TLVs in MIH protocol dissector

From: Ankith Agarwal <ankitha@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:04:39 +0530 (IST)
Hi, 

  Thank you for the advice, it was very helpful...


Regards
Ankith

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> said:

> Hi,
> 
> You could take a look at the CDP dissector:
> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/wireshark/trunk/epan/dissectors/packet-cdp.c
> 
> It has basically the same problem, which it solves by re-using the ett 
> value.
> 
> Thanks,
> jaap
> 
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:22:51 +0530 (IST), Ankith Agarwal wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> I am writing a plugin for dissection of MIH protocol.
>> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=6547
>> This protocol contains all the information in form of TLVs(type 
>> length
>> value), also this protocol does not specify the maximum number of 
>> TLVs
>> inside a packet. I am confused in the display of the TLVs. I tried it
>> with
>> assigning a subtree to each TLV, is there any better way of doing it?
>> -> Also, in the plugin I have set the number of TLV subtrees to 20, 
>> but
>> that is not a good way of doing it, can someone also tell me how to 
>> set
>> variable length subtrees in ett array.
>>
>> Regards
>> Ankith
> 
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Ankith Agarwal
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CDAC Hyderabad



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