Many users of Wireshark don't require all of the supported for their day-to-day
tasks. Has any consideration been given to providing threw the build process,
to select the protocols required by the builder?
In my case, I can't remember the last time I used any decode but the
Ethernet/IP/TCP stack with VoIP, MEGACO and some custom dissectors. Token
Ring, IPX, Vines, etc. don't have much use to me in my normal day. While this
is not true of everyone, if I could build a reduced protocol Wireshark it
would, among other things be:
be smallerless code == lest chance of program faultsless memory requiredfaster
to build
I could see a simple set of "classes" that each dissector would be placed prior
to building. By default all current dissectors would be either core or
optional.
core == required dissectorsoptional == Dissectors that enhance and provide
additional information for core dissectors header only == dissect only the
"root" proto_tree and return.ignore == do not add to library, dll or plug-in
tree.
Any thoughts anyone? Perhaps this capability exists, in that case I apologize.
Alex Lindberg
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