SYNOPSIS wireshark ĭESCRIPTION Wireshark is a GUI network protocol analyzer. See this screenshot, in which I’ve cunningly highlighted the point at which it shows we’re now building with the Lua dissectors.NAME wireshark - Interactively dump and analyze network traffic So the next time you run yum update, if you’ve added the repository from Wireshark 2.4 on CentOS 7 (TL DR version), you’ll find the ability to use Lua dissectors in Wireshark. rpm files and update the repository on the Internet.

Now we follow the remaining steps in the Building Wireshark 2.4.0 for CentOS 7 post. Instead, we just need to alter the configure command, so that we can generate the proper elements already in the source code and make process. spec file to add the new build options, and then building and packaging the files. This means we don’t need to break the rpmbuild process into parts, editing the. spec file that drives the rpmbuild process itself. Unlike some packages, Wireshark actually builds the. Yes it can!įirstly, we need to add the Lua development libraries to the build system. Have a look at the Wireshark wiki for examples on Lua dissectors. Lua in Wireshark allows you to code your own packet dissectors, which means you can do your own protocol analysis and development. I have a request: on your next Wireshark build, would you enable the “Lua” option? This would enable user-defined packet dissectors, an extremely useful option for those of us doing embedded development. Your Wireshark package has saved me a lot of time!

I wanted to thank you for your Centos 7 repository. Joel has dropped me an email and asked if Lua ( which should never, ever be LUA) could be enabled in the CentOS Wireshark builds.

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