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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2009-05-05 20:46:21 +0000
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2009-05-05 20:46:21 +0000
commitcebd27b3c00366a0f6890060a4fb73f5d86bcb65 (patch)
treebb120ece784fe9ea746d44773dcc9cc663b45552
parentcfe974aadd33da87e3f94c1226ab6de0f847d920 (diff)
Update a comment (we can now fetch other dissectors' tables).
svn path=/trunk/; revision=28282
-rw-r--r--epan/dissectors/packet-chdlc.c11
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/epan/dissectors/packet-chdlc.c b/epan/dissectors/packet-chdlc.c
index 13b2c858cc..860325eeff 100644
--- a/epan/dissectors/packet-chdlc.c
+++ b/epan/dissectors/packet-chdlc.c
@@ -71,13 +71,10 @@ static dissector_handle_t data_handle;
* on Ethernet those are encapsulated inside SNAP with an OUI of
* OUI_CISCO, not OUI_ENCAP_ETHER.
*
- * Perhaps we should set up a protocol table for those protocols
- * that differ between Ethernet and Cisco HDLC, and have the PPP
- * code first try that table and, if it finds nothing in that
- * table, call "ethertype()". (Unfortunately, that means that -
- * assuming we had a Cisco SLARP dissector - said dissector were
- * disabled, SLARP packets would be dissected as Reverse ARP
- * packets, not as data.)
+ * We thus have a separate dissector table for Cisco HDLC types.
+ * We could perhaps have that table hold only type values that
+ * wouldn't be in the Ethernet dissector table, and check that
+ * table first and the Ethernet dissector table if that fails.
*/
#define CISCO_SLARP 0x8035 /* Cisco SLARP protocol */