Perfect, that's exactly what I was after. Thanks very much. Alan
On 26 July 2010 09:07, Tarjei Knapstad <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23 July 2010 13:49, Alan Bowman <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have written two dissectors for some protocols I am using, one of >> which is wrapped inside the other. Protocol B is used if a particular >> byte (A6, below) in protocol A is a particular value. I have >> registered A using register_dissector_table(). I can create a subset >> tvb and use dissector_try_port() to get protocol B dissector to be >> called and to have the data (B0..BN) passed to it. However, B's >> dissection also depends on knowing whether A was sent as a broadcast >> packet or as a direct response to a request, which is stored in A's >> header (A2). (Not my design!). Can anyone suggest how I should pass >> this information to B? Should I tack it onto the start of the tvb as >> a composite buffer, or is there some way of attaching metadata to it? >> Is there a similar protocol I should look at? >> >> A0 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 B0 B1 B2 ... BN >> >> Thanks in advance >> > > Alan, > > I think this is usually achieved by passing the data along in the > packet_info->private_data field. In your case I guess it would suffice > to just pass along a boolean. Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm > wrong here, but I think the standard procedure is along these lines: > > void* saved_private_data = pinfo->private_data; > gboolean isBroadcastPacket = check_if_broadcast_packet(/*...*/); > pinfo->private_data = &isBroadcastPacket; > dissector_try_port(/*...*/); > pinfo->private_data = saved_private_data; > > Regards, > Tarjei > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> > Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
