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Re: Dissecting a Protocol with multiple static TCP ports


From: Bill Meier <wmeier () newsguy com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:37:40 -0400

Craig Bumpstead wrote:
Hi,

I am trying to write a dissector for a proprietary protocol. This protocol can use 4 static TCP ports. 
Thanks to the Wireshark tutorial I have gotten the dissector to work, but only with one static TCP port.

I have tried:
dissector_add("tcp.port", 21016, myproto_handle);  
dissector_add("tcp.port", 4435, myproto_handle);
....
.....

without any luck, it just decodes the first 2 packets then will only decode packets with TCP port 21016.



I would have expected that the above would result in your dissector code 
being called for any TCP packet which has either of the ports as a 
source or destination.

I'm not sure what you mean by "it just decodes the first 2 packets ...".

Do you mean that it does decode 2 packets with a tcp port of 4435 ?

If so, my guess is that there's something in your dissector code which 
is clobbering something somehow.

Also: make sure you have the tcp protocol option "Try Heuristic 
sub-dissectors first" set to off.
[Edit ! Preferences ! Protocols ! TCP]



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