Re: Determine address type of string

[Jo <wireshark () rueschel de>]

Hello Chris,

I really like this idea but IIRC not the complete API is exposed to
plugins and so str_to_ip and str_to_ip6 are not available in a
standard installation for plugins (they are not included in the
libwireshark.def file which I do not have on my windows development
machine anyway but these entries are missing from a libwireshark.def
file I found on the internet).

Do you have any idea where I can request these two functions to be
added to plugin API?

Bye,
Jo

2015-11-09 15:12 GMT+01:00 Maynard, Chris <Christopher.Maynard () igt com>:
> You could first call str_to_ip() and if it fails, call str_to_ip6(), and if that too fails then assume it's a FQDN.  
> The str_to_ip() and str_to_ip6() functions are just wrappers for inet_pton(); they are declared in epan/addr_resolv.h.
>
> - Chris
>
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> Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Determine address type of string
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> Hello,
>
> I am writing a custom dissector as a plugin. There I need to determine the address type of a string in a TLV. It can 
> be either an IPv4 address, IPv6 address or a FQDN.
>
> What is the best way to parse this string into the Wireshark data types?
>
> My idea was to check which delimieters occur ("." -> IPv4, ":" ->
> IPv6) iand if there dots, to check whether the parts between the dots are numerical.
>
> Bye,
> Jo
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