Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Thoughts on disabling an old dissector

From: Michael Lum <michael.lum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:51:40 -0800
I asked around internally and as a customer of AudioCodes we still use that dissector.

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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joerg Mayer
> Sent: December 18, 2013 10:48 AM
> To: Developer support list for Wireshark
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Thoughts on disabling an old dissector
> 
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 01:33:00PM -0500, Evan Huus wrote:
> > This was originally filed as bug 9569. The situation is 
> sufficiently 
> > unusual that I really don't know what the best solution is, so I 
> > figured I'd ask for general comments from the list. The company who 
> > created and used the TPNCP protocol (and submitted the 
> packet-tpncp.c
> > dissector) wants to reuse that name for a new, different 
> protocol and 
> > are asking us to disable the old dissector to avoid 
> conflicts. The bug 
> > has more detail.
> > 
> > https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9569
> 
> I just added the following to the bug:
> """
> My preferred solution would be to keep the old protocol as 
> version 1, add the new protocol as version 2 into the same 
> dissector and add a preference to select which  version to 
> use (with a default of 2). It doesn't have to be 1 or 2 of course.
> """
> 
> Ciao
>     Jörg
> -- 
> Joerg Mayer                                           
> <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just 
> stuff that works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead 
> of technology.
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