Benjamin M Stocks wrote: > I have a question on the mechanics of the header fields in Wireshark. I > am developing a dissector for a protocol where a specific data format > may repeat from 1 -> N times within the same payload. Can I reuse the > same header field identifier, registered with > proto_register_field_array, for each of the individual data blocks > within the same payload?
Yes. There is nothing whatsoever that requires that only one instance of a particular registered field appear in a given protocol tree, and there are plenty of dissectors that put multiple instances of a field in a protocol tree if the packet has more than one of them. _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
