On Tuesday 11 March 2014 23:12:34 Nilesh Nayak wrote:
> Is it necessary to uninstall the wireshark each time you try to add a new
> plugin for your customised protocol?
No, a plugin can be enabled and disabled without reinstalling WS.
> Or can we have 2 instances of wireshark running on the same machine ?
See the manual page of wireshark, in particular the part about plugins. If you
have two different versions of wireshark, then you can put two different
plugins in different directories.
> Could someone help me with a basic foo plugin ?
What is your purpose? Have you read doc/README.developer already? If you are
trying to create a dissector, I suggest to add a new protocol dissector
instead of a plugin. Those are easier to add (but require you to build a new
WS binary).
Regards,
Peter