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Re: Calling chained dissector only once and modifying payload for further processing
From: Peter Wu <peter () lekensteyn nl>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 10:33:41 +0200
Hi Jeswin, On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:45:21PM +0000, Jeswin Mathai wrote:
want to modify payload of a packet before it is processed by its desired dissector. I've written a chained dissector in lua, which modifies the tvb and then calls the next dissector with the modified tvb. The plugins is working correctly. The issue I'm facing is that the dissector is called every time, upon applying filter or opening the io graph, which makes it slower. I can call my dissector only once by checking the value of pinfo.visited. But doing so the payload is not modified and the desired dissector processes the original payload after the first run. I'm looking for a solution so that my dissector is called only onces, which will processes and modifies the payload on the first run. The modified payload should persist so that whenever the packet is visited again(by applying filters or IO graph or Endpoints) the desired dissector would process the modifed payload rather than the original one
Do you have some sample code that shows the operations you are performing? Perhaps there is room for optimization. If memory usage is not a concern, you could store the processed data in a table (keyed by pinfo.number) and refer to it on the second pass. Be sure to clear this table when the proto.init callback is invoked (where proto is your Proto instance), this callback is executed every time a capture file is reloaded. -- Kind regards, Peter Wu https://lekensteyn.nl ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Calling chained dissector only once and modifying payload for further processing Jeswin Mathai (Apr 12)
- Re: Calling chained dissector only once and modifying payload for further processing Peter Wu (Apr 14)
- Re: Calling chained dissector only once and modifying payload for further processing Jeswin Mathai (Apr 14)
- Re: Calling chained dissector only once and modifying payload for further processing Peter Wu (Apr 14)