On Aug 4, 2006, at 8:56 AM, Liu Chunfang-CCL083 wrote:
Does anyone know if there is the planning to have a dissector to
decode WiMax MAC protocol?
There's no Official Plan for dissectors - if somebody writes a
dissector and contributes it, and it's good enough, it'll become part
of Wireshark.
Bottom-layer protocols such as Ethernet are a special case, however -
there'd need to be a way to identify those protocols based on
"metadata" in the capture file, such as, for example, a capture type
indication in the file header.
I assume the WiMax MAC protocol is such a protocol. If so, then, in
order to handle it in Wireshark, we'd have to add code in the Wiretap
library to recognize it in some capture file format that supports it -
and if the format you want for it is the native libpcap format, you'd
have to send mail to tcpdump-workers@xxxxxxxxxxx to request a link-
layer type value for WiMax.