Re: [Wireshark-dev] Send info to plugin

2011-10-08 Thread Guy Harris
On Oct 7, 2011, at 4:40 AM, Martin Kaiser wrote: > Thus wrote Guy Harris (g...@alum.mit.edu): (At this point, I really wish my name were Zarathustra. :-)) > I've been > playing with a new port_type PT_DVBCI_SESSION_NUMBER and set both source > and destination port to the session number. Does th

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Send info to plugin

2011-10-08 Thread Guy Harris
On Oct 7, 2011, at 2:27 AM, fa...@freesurf.fr wrote: > Typically a filename + Directory where the the plugin dissector would > write some statistic information. If those are statistics about the protocol, that sort of work is best done in a tap, rather than a dissector; dissectors should just d

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Send info to plugin

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Kaiser
Thus wrote Guy Harris (g...@alum.mit.edu): > We should probably also add a notion of "conversations" available to > dissectors at multiple layers (a notion more general than the current > address-and-port-endpoint-pair notion, that can include multiple > address layers, "circuits" for protocols th

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Send info to plugin

2011-10-07 Thread fab12
> > On Oct 7, 2011, at 1:19 AM, fa...@freesurf.fr wrote: > >> Is there any way to send some information to a plugin dissector from the >> wireshark GUI interface? > > What sort of information? > Typically a filename + Directory where the the plugin dissector would write some statistic information.

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Send info to plugin

2011-10-07 Thread Guy Harris
On Oct 7, 2011, at 1:19 AM, fa...@freesurf.fr wrote: > Is there any way to send some information to a plugin dissector from the > wireshark GUI interface? What sort of information? > For instance using a wireshark menu to set some variable that will be > accessible from the plugin. As Anders s

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Send info to plugin

2011-10-07 Thread Anders Broman
ect: [Wireshark-dev] Send info to plugin Hello, Is there any way to send some information to a plugin dissector from the wireshark GUI interface? For instance using a wireshark menu to set some variable that will be accessible from the plugin. Or maybe it is possible to add a menu from the

[Wireshark-dev] Send info to plugin

2011-10-07 Thread fab12
Hello, Is there any way to send some information to a plugin dissector from the wireshark GUI interface? For instance using a wireshark menu to set some variable that will be accessible from the plugin. Or maybe it is possible to add a menu from the plugin? Thanks Fabien _