Hi Stephen, On 6/13/07, Stephen Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Thanks for the reply, this validates what I expected. > > 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? :-) Sadly that's not possible for some reasons. The biggest problem would be that one needs a precompiled library in order for the hacked dissector to work. This library has a license which is not really compatible. It does all the work, the dissector code only calls it. If there would be a way to publish it I'd really do it as I did before. :-) > > 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? Thanks for that suggestion - I'll investigate if we could do that. Best regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
