Don,

Care to comment on this one?
Frankly I'm getting tired of going back and forth with this thing.  
Can't we sort it out once and for all?

Thanx,
Jaap

On 3 dec 2008, at 22:35, Bill Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Log:
>> From Don Newton:
>> Set default port of Unistim back to 5000; The Unistim dissector is  
>> made a heuristic dissector.
>>
>
> Comment from the original code:
> /* Don't set this to 5000 until this dissector is made a heuristic
> one!     static guint global_unistim_port = 5000;
>        It collides (at least) with tapa. */
>
> It appears to me that, strictly speaking, the rev 26904 change does  
> not
> convert the unistim dissector to a heuristic dissector but to to a  
> "new
> style" dissector (with some heuristic tests).
>
> In any case, since dissector_add is still used to register port  
> 50000 on
> udp.port, the collision with tapa (as well as some other dissectors)
> still exists.
>
>
> I could make the change to actually register the dissector as a
> heuristic one instead (via heur_dissector_add).
>
> However, the just added heuristic seems quite minimal:
>
>  Either [0,1] in the first byte or [2],[0-3,ff] in the first two bytes
>  seems to me to be a rather weak heuristic.
>
> Would adding a check for port 5000 (or whatever from the pref) as part
> of the heuristic make the heuristic "strong enough" ?
>
> If it's not possible to strengthen the heuristic, I'm inclined to  
> revert
> this change given various previous EMails & etc on this subject.
>
> Comments (or am I missing something) ??
>
>
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