MATE registers a do-nothing tap just to have the configured fields to
be extracted being marked as interesting, other than that there's no
reason for the tap to exist. mate_tree() is not invoked by the tap but
it is being called by dissect_frame() after all other dissector had
run.
What's happeni
I am a bit stymied as to how the MATE plugin works, and thus why I
can almost but not quite make it do what I want. What I am trying to
do(at a minimum) is add the ability to sort by TCP session in the
packet list view. While trying to figure out how to do that, I was
fiddling with mate, and i