On Sep 29, 2011, at 1:29 AM, Sandwood Sandwood wrote:

> I am not in any of the case, my protocol is running on top of X.25 . 

The "Decode As" widget includes no code to support X.25, so, in your case, 
there is no way to make any dissector, whether C or Lua or whatever, to appear 
in that widget.

> I checked the implementation of the X.25 dissector,  for the payload, the 
> dissector checks if it might be an IP,  then OSI CLNP , then the heuristic 
> dissector (we can't neither write heuristic dissector in LUA), then if 
> nothing match, invokes the raw data dissector.

Then, if your protocol could have a heuristic dissector, what you need is 
support for heuristic dissectors in Lua.  Having a heuristic dissector figure 
out what protocol is being carried over X.25 is more convenient than having to 
tell Wireshark what's carried over X.25.

> More generally I presume I can't be the first to need to "Decode the raw data 
> with whatever Dissectors I want"

What you need is not "decode all raw data in this capture with a particular 
dissector that I choose"; for example, if the dissector you want itself has a 
payload that it shows as raw data, that won't work right.  (Your dissector 
might not happen to have that problem, but a general mechanism has to work in 
the general case, not just in your case.)

What you need is, ideally, "dissect the traffic on this particular X.25 virtual 
circuit with one of these dissectors", where "these dissectors" are dissectors 
that don't require and expect their PDUs to be carried on a particular protocol 
(yes, those exist).  "Dissect any unknown data over X.25 with one of these 
dissectors" would probably be an adequate substitute in most cases.
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