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<preface id="Preface">
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<title>Preface</title>
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<section id="PreForeword">
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<title>Foreword</title>
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<para>
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This book tries to give you a guide to start your own experiments into
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the wonderful world of Wireshark development.
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<para>
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Developers who are new to Wireshark often have a hard time getting
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their development environment up and running. This is
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especially true for Win32 developers, as a lot of the tools and methods
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used when building Wireshark are much more common in the UNIX world than
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on Win32.
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</para>
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<para>
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The first part of this book will describe how to set up the environment
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needed to develop Wireshark.
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</para>
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<para>
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The second part of this book will describe how to change the Wireshark
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source code.
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</para>
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<para>
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We hope that you find this book useful, and look forward to your comments.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id="PreAudience">
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<title>Who should read this document?</title>
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<para>
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The intended audience of this book is anyone going into the development of
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Wireshark.
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</para>
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<para>
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This book is not intended to explain the usage of Wireshark in general.
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Please refer the
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<ulink url="&WiresharkUsersGuidePage;">Wireshark User's Guide</ulink>
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about Wireshark usage.
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</para>
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<para>
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By reading this book, you will learn how to develop Wireshark. It will
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hopefully guide you around some common problems that frequently appear for
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new (and sometimes even advanced) developers of Wireshark.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id="PreAck">
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<title>Acknowledgements</title>
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The authors would like to thank the whole Wireshark team for their
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assistance. In particular, the authors would like to thank:
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<para>
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Gerald Combs, for initiating the Wireshark project.
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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Guy Harris, for many helpful hints and his effort in maintaining
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the various contributions on the mailing lists.
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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<para>
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The authors would also like to thank the following people for their
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helpful feedback on this document:
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<para>XXX - Please give feedback :-)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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And of course a big thank you to the many, many contributors of the
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Wireshark development community!
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id="PreAbout">
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<title>About this document</title>
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<para>
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This book was developed by
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<ulink url="mailto:&AuthorEmail;">Ulf Lamping</ulink>.
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<para>
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It is written in DocBook/XML.
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</para>
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<para>
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You will find some specially marked parts in this book:
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</para>
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<warning><title>This is a warning!</title>
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<para>
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You should pay attention to a warning, as otherwise data loss might occur.
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</para>
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</warning>
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<note><title>This is a note!</title>
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<para>
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A note will point you to common mistakes and things that might not be
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obvious.
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</para>
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</note>
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<tip><title>This is a tip!</title>
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Tips will be helpful for your everyday work developing Wireshark.
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</para>
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</tip>
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</section>
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<section id="PreDownload">
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<title>Where to get the latest copy of this document?</title>
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<para>
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The latest copy of this documentation can always be found at:
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<ulink url="&WiresharkDevsGuidePage;">&WiresharkDevsGuidePage;</ulink>
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in PDF (A4 and US letter), HTML (single and chunked) and CHM format.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id="PreFeedback">
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<title>Providing feedback about this document</title>
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<para>
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Should you have any feedback about this document, please send it
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to the authors through <ulink url="mailto:&WiresharkDevMailList;">&WiresharkDevMailList;</ulink>.
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</para>
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</section>
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</preface>
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