than a pointer to a dissector function, as an argument.
This means that the conversation dissector is called through
"call_dissector()", so the dissector itself doesn't have to worry about
checking whether the protocol is enabled or setting
"pinfo->current_proto", so get rid of the code that does that in
conversation dissectors. Also, make the conversation dissectors static.
Get rid of some direct calls to dissectors; replace them with calls
through handles, and, again, get rid of code to check whether a protocol
is enabled and set "pinfo->current_proto" where that code isn't needed.
Make those dissectors static if they aren't already static.
Add a routine "create_dissector_handle()" to create a dissector handle
without registering it by name, if the dissector isn't used outside the
module in which it's defined.
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of protocol-id-plus-datum pairs, so that multiple protocols can attach
information to the same conversation.
Dissectors that attach information to a conversation should not assume
that if they find a conversation it has one of its data attached to it;
the conversation might've been created by another dissector.
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to imply that
1) conversations have source and destination addresses and ports
- they don't (if they did, they'd be monologues, not
conversations), they just have two address/port pairs for the
two endpoints, with one or more of the address or port in the
second pair possibly being wildcarded;
2) the first and second address or port argument to
"find_conversation()" or "try_conversation_dissector()" have
anything to do with the first or second address/port pair in
a conversation - they don't, the two arguments to those
routines are matched against *both* address/port pairs for a
conversation;
as otherwise people might think that they need to add flags to wildcard
the first arguments "conversation_new()" or "find_conversation()" (they
don't, they just have to pass the non-wildcarded address/port first and
then pass the wildcarded one, even if that means passing the destination
first and source second).
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source *and* destination port and/or both the source *and* destination
address passed to "find_conversation()", because the packet for which
you're trying to find the conversation may be going in the opposite
direction to the packet for which the conversation was originally
created.
Create different hash tables for wildcarded conversations, to reduce the
number of "is this a wildcard?" tests done when doing hash lookups.
This is sufficient to allow the TFTP dissector to use conversations
rather than being special-cased in the UDP dissector, and may also be
sufficient to handle a similar problem with SMTP (request goes from
client IP X port Y to server IP Z's well-known port, reply comes back
from some other port on server Z to client IP X port Y), but further use
may reveal other changes that should be made.
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Jörg Mayer