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Getting involved with Wireshark (was: Re: What Wireshark base version to use for customization)
From: Peter Wu <peter () lekensteyn nl>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:21:50 +0100
Hi, (This is kind of off-topic, start a new thread for such questions.) On Wednesday 10 December 2014 15:29:03 pogiako wrote:
I'm looking for something something to work on for my thesis. I'm a Free Software guy and I thought of contributing to Wireshark is great idea. I'm doing an exploratory project (Like to find something out or to prove something), more on research. I don't code, I only know basic C. I have the K&R 2nd E. book, will that help? I have up to April or May for this.
K&R is sufficient to learn the basics of the C language, but you can't learn without actually practising. I started contributing to Wireshark when I noticed that SSL decryption was not working in one case. It turned out that some numbers were missing, so I wrote my first Wireshark patch to solve that[1]. Moral of the story: you do not really need deep Wireshark knowledge to write such a patch and the best way to get involved is to fix an issue you encounter while using Wireshark. A good way to get acquainted with Wireshark is to write a dissector. See doc/README.dissector (and doc/README.developer) for details. Once you get more familiar, consider skimming the bug tracker (https://bugs.wireshark.org/) for issues that can be fixed. Type in your favorite protocol/feature (e.g. "ssl", "http" or "gtk") and try to find out whether you can fix it or not. A good learning experience even if you do not manage to fix the bug. -- Kind regards, Peter https://lekensteyn.nl [1]: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9144 ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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