Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Ethereal Gripe

[John McDermott]

So what is the goal?  A tool to create a good dissector for any protocol 
or a tool to create a reasonable (a bit better than "quick and dirty") 
dissector for lots of possible protocols.  I think the latter.  IMHO, the 
primary use of the tool would be more to implement dissectors for local 
or seldom-used protocols than to use it to try to build a new, say, H.323 
dissector.

--john

Ed Warnicke wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Andreas Sikkema wrote:


Ed Warnicke wrote:


Most of these shouldn't be that hard to handle as generalized
cases... but everytime I find myself saying that I think of
DNS and DNS compression... there will always be oddballs...
But those are not the kind f protocols the general ethereal user will
want to (quickly) add for themselves. And if they do I presume they
have the knowledge to add something to E


That was roughly the point I was trying to make ( unfortunately
not very clearly :).  Solving the general case is hard.  Solving
a handleful of special cases that solve 90% of the problems is
not so hard.
Ed

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