On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 02:57:21PM -0700, Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote: > Agreed. And I'd go further and say that if we're adding a new > protocol that isn't supported by Wireshark (or isn't likely to be > unless Sun does the work) then we should be thinking twice > about that protocol.
That's a bit extreme. You can teach Wireshark about lots of application protocols, such as RPC protocols. Application protocols often aren't standardized, either at all or until the protocol becomes popular, so what, we should not develop any new application protocols without first standardizing them and/or waiting for others to implement them? I imagine that you must have meant protocols below the application layer. Even then, if Wireshark had no, say, RDDP dissector does that reflect poorly on RDDP? Or does it nothing of note about RDDP? (IMO, the latter.) Surely Sun can lead rather than trail, no? Nico --
