On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:31:21PM +0200, Martin Peylo wrote: > I'm searching for a way to unregister a dissector.
I don't think there is a way. See below. > My problem is that we need a specially hacked version of a protocol > dissector which is already built into Wireshark (lives in > libwireshark.so). In order not to distribute a hacked version of > Wireshark (for Linux, Solaris and Windows) to everybody -- each time > we have to change it -- it would be nice to be able to overwrite the > inbuilt dissector with a plugin. Any chance of contributing your changes to the Wireshark code base for all to enjoy? :-) > If I just call register_dissector(), Wireshark complains that there is > already a dissector registered with that name and does not start. Is > there any way to circumvent this? I didn't manage to find one so far. How about registering your dissector with a slightly different name, but the same port? Then going into Wireshark and disabling the built-in dissector through the Analyasis -> Enabled protocols menu? Steve _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
