Re: Basic question about dissectors

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 2 March 2015 at 14:08, David Aldrich <David.Aldrich () emea nec com> wrote:

>  Hi
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> Please will someone tell me what is the file extension of a dissector and
> how one loads a dissector in Wireshark?
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> I have seen lots of help on how to write a dissector but I just need to
> know how to identify a dissector in a 3rd party distribution file of
> Wireshark, and how to load it.
A dissector can be implemented in many ways and not all of them are
separate files with a file extension.  I assume you're interested in
Wireshark on Windows as you mention a file extension?

A dissector can be built into the Wireshark core as part of
libwireshark.dll, it can be a plugin in the various plugin directories with
a .dll extension (look in Help -> About -> Plugins), it could be a Lua
dissector loaded at runtime form a Lua script file (probably with a .lua
extension), it could be a WSGD dissector loaded at runtime from a text
file, and for some older versions of Wireshark it could be a Python
dissector loaded at runtime.

-- 
Graham Bloice

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