[sldev] [VWR] Wireshark disector for SL protocol

[Lawson English]

Robin Cornelius wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Robin Cornelius
> <robin.cornelius at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>  I find wireshark a useful network debugging tool, if i was to use libsl
>>  then i would have to do additional coding where as i just need to write
>>  a parser to plugin to wireshark and all the packet
>>  capture,logging,display etc is done for me.
>>     
>
> Ok, i've mostly got working code together now, its sitting at
> svn://slupdate.byteme.org.uk/wireshark/plugins/secondlife  (check out
> with svn)
>
> It seems to basically work and decodes packets ok but currently does
> not handle zero encoded packets yet. The message template parser is as
> "rough as rats" but seems to work. In fact the whole thing is a bit
> rough but it basically does what i wanted it for.
>
>   
Zero decode is strange because you have to decode the packet ID before 
you can determine how long the packet is in order to decode the rest of 
the packet (appended acks are not encoded).



> If its useful to anyone, feel free to send me patches, but if any
> parts (or all of it) are worth copying to the secondlife wiki then
> please do so, i give my full endorsement for it or any part of it to
> be submitted.
>   
Thanks.


Lawson