Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] generic dissector from metadata

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 18:44:24 -0700
On Jul 23, 2017, at 6:41 PM, Alan Partis <alpartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I haven't looked very far yet (I probably should before I ask), but is
> there a "generic" dissector that is driven by metadata, or some sort of
> schema, read in at runtime that can parse arbitrary packets?

Wireshark currently doesn't have such a mechanism, but there's a third-party plugin that does:

	http://wsgd.free.fr