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Re: Basic question about dissectors
From: David Aldrich <David.Aldrich () EMEA NEC COM>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 14:36:44 +0000
Hi Graham Thanks very much for your answer. Best regards David From: wireshark-users-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Graham Bloice Sent: 02 March 2015 14:19 To: Community support list for Wireshark Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Basic question about dissectors On 2 March 2015 at 14:08, David Aldrich <David.Aldrich () emea nec com<mailto:David.Aldrich () emea nec com>> wrote: Hi Please will someone tell me what is the file extension of a dissector and how one loads a dissector in Wireshark? I have seen lots of help on how to write a dissector but I just need to know how to identify a dissector in a 3rd party distribution file of Wireshark, and how to load it. A dissector can be implemented in many ways and not all of them are separate files with a file extension. I assume you're interested in Wireshark on Windows as you mention a file extension? A dissector can be built into the Wireshark core as part of libwireshark.dll, it can be a plugin in the various plugin directories with a .dll extension (look in Help -> About -> Plugins), it could be a Lua dissector loaded at runtime form a Lua script file (probably with a .lua extension), it could be a WSGD dissector loaded at runtime from a text file, and for some older versions of Wireshark it could be a Python dissector loaded at runtime. -- Graham Bloice
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