the following:
It is now possible to enable/disable a particular protocol decoding
(i.e. the protocol dissector is void or not). When a protocol
is disabled, it is displayed as Data and of course, all linked
sub-protocols are disabled as well.
Disabling a protocol could be interesting:
- in case of buggy dissectors
- in case of wrong heuristics
- for performance reasons
- to decode the data as another protocol (TODO)
Currently (if I am not wrong), all dissectors but NFS can be disabled
(and dissectors that do not register protocols :-)
I do not like the way the RPC sub-dissectors are disabled (in the
sub-dissectors) since this could be done in the RPC dissector itself,
knowing the sub-protocol hfinfo entry (this is why, I've not modified
the NFS one yet).
Two functions are added in proto.c :
gboolean proto_is_protocol_enabled(int n);
void proto_set_decoding(int n, gboolean enabled);
and two MACROs which can be used in dissectors:
OLD_CHECK_DISPLAY_AS_DATA(index, pd, offset, fd, tree)
CHECK_DISPLAY_AS_DATA(index, tvb, pinfo, tree)
See also the XXX in proto_dlg.c and proto.c around the new functions.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=2267
dissectors to be registered as dissectors for particular ports,
registered as heuristic dissectors, and registered as dissectors for
conversations, and have routines to be used both by old-style and
new-style dissectors to call registered dissectors.
Have the code that calls those dissectors translate the arguments as
necessary. (For conversation dissectors, replace
"find_conversation_dissector()", which just returns a pointer to the
dissector, with "old_try_conversation_dissector()" and
"try_conversation_dissector()", which actually call the dissector, so
that there's a single place at which we can do that translation. Also
make "dissector_lookup()" static and, instead of calling it and, if it
returns a non-null pointer, calling that dissector, just use
"old_dissector_try_port()" or "dissector_try_port()", for the same
reason.)
This allows some dissectors that took old-style arguments and
immediately translated them to new-style arguments to just take
new-style arguments; make them do so. It also allows some new-style
dissectors not to have to translate arguments before calling routines to
look up and call dissectors; make them not do so.
Get rid of checks for too-short frames in new-style dissectors - the
tvbuff code does those checks for you.
Give the routines to register old-style dissectors, and to call
dissectors from old-style dissectors, names beginning with "old_", with
the routines for new-style dissectors not having the "old_". Update the
dissectors that use those routines appropriately.
Rename "dissect_data()" to "old_dissect_data()", and
"dissect_data_tvb()" to "dissect_data()".
svn path=/trunk/; revision=2218
a particular type, rather than taking a varargs list, along the lines of
the "proto_tree_add_XXX_format()" routines.
Replace most calls to "proto_tree_add_item()" and
"proto_tree_add_item_hidden()" with calls to those routines.
Rename "proto_tree_add_item()" and "proto_tree_add_item_hidden()" to
"proto_tree_add_item_old()" and "proto_tree_add_item_hidden_old()", and
add new "proto_tree_add_item()" and "proto_tree_add_item_hidden()"
routines that don't take the item to be added as an argument - instead,
they fetch the argument from the packet whose tvbuff was handed to them,
from the offset handed to them.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=2031
Add exceptions routines.
Convert proto_tree_add_*() routines to require tvbuff_t* argument.
Convert all dissectors to pass NULL argument ("NullTVB" macro == NULL) as
the tvbuff_t* argument to proto_tree_add_*() routines.
dissect_packet() creates a tvbuff_t, wraps the next dissect call in
a TRY block, will print "Short Frame" on the proto_tree if a BoundsError
exception is caught.
The FDDI dissector is converted to use tvbuff's.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=1939
UDP and into the handoff registration routines for the protocols in
question.
Make the dissectors for those protocols static if they're not called
outside the dissector's source file.
Get rid of header files if all they did was declare dissectors that are
now static; remove declarations of now-static dissectors from header
files that do more than just declare the dissector.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=1823
handle replies that may be continued from an earlier TCP
segment;
not show the argument line in the tree display if the request
or response didn't contain an argument.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=1080
dynamically-assigned "ett_" integer values, assigned by
"proto_register_subtree_array()"; this:
obviates the need to update "packet.h" whenever you add a new
subtree type - you only have to add a call to
"proto_register_subtree_array()" to a "register" routine and an
array of pointers to "ett_", if they're not already there, and
add a pointer to the new "ett_" variable to the array, if they
are there;
would allow run-time-loaded dissectors to allocate subtree types
when they're loaded.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=1043
bunch of source files.
Replace the "payload" field of a "packet_info" structure with "len" and
"captured_len" fields, which contain the total packet length and total
captured packet length (including all headers) at the current protocol
layer (i.e., if a given layer has a length field, and that length field
says its shorter than the length we got from the capture, reduce the
"pi.len" and "pi.captured_len" values appropriately). Those fields can
be used in the future if we add checks to make sure a field we're
extracting from a packet doesn't go past the end of the packet, or past
the captured part of the packet.
Get rid of the additional payload argument to some dissection functions;
use "pi.captured_len - offset" instead.
Have the END_OF_FRAME macro use "pi.captured_len" rather than
"fd->cap_len", so that "dissect the rest of the frame" becomes "dissect
the rest of the packet", and doesn't dissect end-of-frame padding such
as padding added to make an Ethernet frame 60 or more octets long. (We
might want to rename it END_OF_PACKET; if we ever want to label the
end-of-frame padding for the benefit of people curious what that extra
gunk is, we could have a separate END_OF_FRAME macro that uses
"fd->cap_len".)
svn path=/trunk/; revision=506
mechanism that is built into ethereal. Wiretap is now used to read all
file formats. Libpcap is used only for capturing.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=342
Laurent Deniel