Re: [Wireshark-dev] [GSoC] Packet Editor and Viewer

2013-05-08 Thread Edwin Abraham
I have submitted my proposal for GSoC'13. Please let me know if you need anymore information regarding the proposal. http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/eddu1123/1 -- *Edwin Abraham,* Skype ID: edwin_abraham12 BITS-Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus _

Re: [Wireshark-dev] [GSoC] Packet Editor and Viewer

2013-04-24 Thread Edwin Abraham
I will be submitting the proposal on google's gsoc site in a day's time. I wanted to know if the mentors would wants to review it before I submit it? @Guy Harris I would like to know if you require any more clarification on my Idea and also whether you will be willing to review the proposal before

Re: [Wireshark-dev] [GSoC] Packet Editor and Viewer

2013-04-18 Thread Edwin Abraham
Thanks for clearing that up about editcap. Maybe the interactiveness for the editcap CLI can be taken from this UI. Okay lets say that there are a group packets that exist in a huge capture file. And the data needs to be retrieved, stored and interpreted. So the capture is opened in Packet Editor.

Re: [Wireshark-dev] [GSoC] Packet Editor and Viewer

2013-04-18 Thread Guy Harris
On Apr 15, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Edwin Abraham wrote: > I agree on the confusion. The initial thought when I saw the project details > on the Wireshark GSoC page was that a platform to design dissectors based on > existing data. That's an interesting idea, but that's not any of the current GSoC p

Re: [Wireshark-dev] [GSoC] Packet Editor and Viewer

2013-04-18 Thread Guy Harris
On Apr 18, 2013, at 1:38 AM, Edwin Abraham wrote: > As for the Packet Editor I will start working on the Edit toolbar > functionalities that need to be added to the Packet Editor. I will start by > enlisting the editcap funtions ...none of which involve editing particular fields in the packet

Re: [Wireshark-dev] [GSoC] Packet Editor and Viewer

2013-04-18 Thread Edwin Abraham
I want to start working on the LUA interpreter to achieve minimum to no reboot required to execute LUA scripts added while Wireshark is running. I have started to make a list of areas the LUA interpreter is being blocked. I wanted to know if there is anything specific I should look for while diggin

Re: [Wireshark-dev] [GSoC] Packet Editor and Viewer

2013-04-15 Thread Edwin Abraham
Sorry for the mess in the previous mail. Here is the link to the GUI jpeg packet-editor-UI.jpg On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Edwin Abraham wrote: > I agree on the confusion. The initial thought when I saw the p

Re: [Wireshark-dev] [GSoC] Packet Editor and Viewer

2013-04-14 Thread Guy Harris
On Apr 14, 2013, at 12:45 AM, Edwin Abraham wrote: > Last Summer as a part of an internship at DRDO (Defense Research and > Development Organisation) I was asked to go through their custom networking > protocol. So that they could improve the protocol handling and how the > application handle

Re: [Wireshark-dev] [GSoC] Packet Editor and Viewer

2013-04-14 Thread Edwin Abraham
Last Summer as a part of an internship at DRDO (Defense Research and Development Organisation) I was asked to go through their custom networking protocol. So that they could improve the protocol handling and how the application handled. Since they needed a quick fix and I used LUA scripts to write

Re: [Wireshark-dev] [GSoC] Packet Editor and Viewer

2013-04-13 Thread Guy Harris
On Apr 12, 2013, at 11:34 PM, Edwin Abraham wrote: > I had gone through the GSoC project list and I wanted to start working on > Packet Editor/Viewer. I also was thinking of working on the functionality of > adding custom dissectors from the packet editor. Why the packet editor? Adding the a

[Wireshark-dev] [GSoC] Packet Editor and Viewer

2013-04-12 Thread Edwin Abraham
I had gone through the GSoC project list and I wanted to start working on Packet Editor/Viewer. I also was thinking of working on the functionality of adding custom dissectors from the packet editor. The embedded LUA, initially, can be used so that the only a reboot of wireshark is needed for the d