On Jul 12, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Weston Schmidt wrote:

> I've got a protocol that I'm dissecting that has 3 fields that define which 
> subdissector should be called.  How should I enable the selection in a 
> 'Wireshark' friendly way?

There's no mechanism for using anything other than an up-to-32-bit integer, or 
a string, to directly select a subdissector.

> 3 Fields I need to merge into 1 for sub-dissector selection purposes:
> EISS

An "ETV integrated signaling stream", as per CableLabs spec 
OC-SP-ETV-AM1.0-I04-070921?

If so, then an EISS section contains an application_identifier, which 
"identifies the application according to DVB-MHP section 10.5".  DVB-MHP is 
ETSI TS 101 812, which says that an application identifier has:

> org_id (4 bytes)

organisation_id: This 32 bit field is a globally unique value identifying the 
organisation that is responsible for the application. These values are 
registered in ETSI TR 101 162 [10]. Values of zero shall not be encoded.

> app_id (2 bytes)

application_id: This 16 bit field uniquely identifies the application function. 
This is allocated by the organisation registered with the organisation_id who 
decides the policy for allocation within the organisation. Values of zero shall 
not be encoded.

> trigger_table_id (2 bytes)

So which field is that?  The ETSI spec doesn't seem to have anything of that 
sort, and the only 16-bit field in an EISS section, according to the CableLabs 
spec, is the application_type field.  Is this from some other spec?

At least for the organization ID/application ID pair, that's somewhat similar 
to an OID and protocol ID in the SNAP protocol, which we handle by having the 
OID select a dissector table from a table-of-dissector-tables, and using the 
protocol ID to select a dissector from the dissector table in question.  I 
don't know whether that would work here or not.

However, I'm not sure how the trigger table ID would fit in there, other than 
just adding another layer to the tables-of-tables.
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