Re: Determine address type of string

[Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte () gmail com>]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Jo <wireshark () rueschel de> wrote:

> Hello Chris,
>
> I really like this idea but IIRC not the complete API is exposed to
> plugins and so str_to_ip and str_to_ip6 are not available in a
> standard installation for plugins (they are not included in the
> libwireshark.def file which I do not have on my windows development
> machine anyway but these entries are missing from a libwireshark.def
> file I found on the internet).
>
> Do you have any idea where I can request these two functions to be
> added to plugin API?
Only need to propose a patch on gerrit with export of 2 functions...

Cheers

> Bye,
> Jo
>
> 2015-11-09 15:12 GMT+01:00 Maynard, Chris <Christopher.Maynard () igt com>:
> > You could first call str_to_ip() and if it fails, call str_to_ip6(), and
> if that too fails then assume it's a FQDN.  The str_to_ip() and
> str_to_ip6() functions are just wrappers for inet_pton(); they are declared
> in epan/addr_resolv.h.
> > - Chris
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:
> wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Jo
> > Sent: Mon, November 09, 2015 4:14 AM
> > To: wireshark-dev () wireshark org
> > Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Determine address type of string
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am writing a custom dissector as a plugin. There I need to determine
> the address type of a string in a TLV. It can be either an IPv4 address,
> IPv6 address or a FQDN.
> > What is the best way to parse this string into the Wireshark data types?
> >
> > My idea was to check which delimieters occur ("." -> IPv4, ":" ->
> > IPv6) iand if there dots, to check whether the parts between the dots
> are numerical.
> > Bye,
> > Jo
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