On Oct 19, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Joe wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.

(Which doesn't mean I'm the only person to respond to.  If I reply to a 
question, it doesn't mean I'm the person who will handle the issue - others on 
the list might have more time, or more information, to respond.  I suspect the 
same is true of most other developers on the list.)

> Our product is more like a filter offload engine.

"Offload" in what sense?  Is it another program that could perform the same 
dissection as Wireshark and thus support the same filter operations (or that 
does a subset of the dissection and thus supports a subset of the fields 
supported by Wireshark)?  Does it just filter packets, or perform other 
operations?

> Essentially I would like to interpret the Wireshark filter syntax for 
> interpretation and offload.  There are some other parameters that I would 
> like to make available to the GUI that don't involve filtering but this will 
> probably be done in phases.
> 
> The changes would only apply to folks who have our product and GNU licensing 
> is not a problem.
> 
> Does it still make sense to submit this for general incorporation into the 
> core release?  Is there another mechanism to allow users to optionally add 
> our code into an existing install?

That depends on what your code does.  *If*, for example, it's something that 
could be done in a tap listener, then the code could be distributed as a tap 
listener plugin.  We'd need to know the details of what your Wireshark 
modifications would do in order to determine whether it could be implemented as 
a plugin.
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