On Feb 19, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Gerald Combs wrote:

> Behdad Forghani wrote:
>> I am thinking of developing a notation along with code generator and
>> Eclipse integration to specify protocol PDUs and then generate  
>> Wireshark
>> dissectors automatically, thus reducing the time to hand code  
>> dissectors
>> and errors. Before, I do that, I wanted to make sure that I am not
>> reinventing the wheel. Does such a tool already exist for non ASN.1
>> protocol messages?
>
> You might want to take a look at the NetPDL and TSN.1 notations:
>
>    http://www.nbee.org/doku.php?id=netpdl:index
>    http://www.protomatics.com/tsn1.html

Others have suggested the BinPAC language used by the Bro IDE:

        http://bro-ids.org/wiki/index.php/BinPAC

and I think Scapy was mentioned in this context (or maybe I stumbled  
across it):

        http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/

and somebody's worked on some code to do this with their own language:

        http://wsgd.free.fr/

or, heck, maybe use ASN.1 - ASN.1 isn't a protocol; the "A" stands for  
"Abstract", so it's a way to describe the "abstract syntax" of  
protocols, and you have to add the encoding rules to see what that  
turns into as a sequence of octets, and there's an Encoding Control  
Notation:

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encoding_Control_Notation

to let you specify non-standard encodings.
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