Re: In which release was 6LoWPAN dissector added?

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl>]

Hi,

First of all you need to be aware of the fact the the 1.3.x series aren't
real releases. They are development snapshots, with no other status than
that. Hopefully they work, but they might break badly. "Not recommended in
production" as the saying goes. 

There's not even a svn tag for it, so it's hard to say what's in there. I
found the tarball and packet-6lowpan.c was not found in there, so it's safe
to say is was not included.

Now that put's you in an interesting position:
1. you've the 6lowpan plugin for 1.2.?
2. 6lowpan was added to 1.3.1.
3. plugins are not portable between versions.

So what you can do is:
1. use the 6lowpan plugin for 1.2.? (? = the maintenance release you build
it for). 
2. skip 1.3.0, since you have no solution, or build your 6lowpan plugin
for that version too.
3. use the build-in dissector in 1.3.? (? >= 1), although 1.3.x is "Not
recommended in production".

Thanks,
Jaap


On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 09:11:51 -0500, Beth <beth.tridium () gmail com> wrote:
> I have developed two sets of Wireshark plugins for use by my coworkers;
one
> set includes a 6lowpan dissector plugin and the other set takes
advantage
> of
> the builtin 6lowpan dissector recently added to Wireshark.  The target
> users
> run different versions of Wireshark, so I plan to support both plugin
sets
> for the near future.
>
> I need to document which set of plugins should be used with which
versions
> of Wireshark.  I thought the 6lowpan dissector was added in release
1.3.2,
> but it appears to be in 1.3.1 as well.  Was there a 1.3.0 release, and
if
> so
> did it also have the builtin 6lowpan dissector?  Should I simply say to
use
> the first set only with 1.2.x releases?
>
> Thanks,
> b.
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