Re: Basic question about dissectors

[David Aldrich <David.Aldrich () EMEA NEC COM>]

Hi Graham

Thanks very much for your answer.

Best regards

David

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Bloice
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Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Basic question about dissectors

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

Please will someone tell me what is the file extension of a dissector and how one loads a dissector in Wireshark?

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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