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I'm attempting to build my first LUA dissector. Specifically I'm writing something to decode PWE3 ControlWords (RFC4385) in more detail than the default one. The dissector I've written works fine but I need to pass the payload to an ethernet dissector.

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/lua_module_Proto.html 11.3 indicates that this should be possible

In another blog I found I should use a call of the form: DissectorTable.get("mpls.label"):get_dissector(2097):call(buffer(4):tvb(), pinfo, tree)

But this just gives me LUA errors "attempt to index a null value"

I tried this:

local my_table = DissectorTable.list()

for k,v in pairs(my_table) do print(k.." = "..v) end

Which proved that the Dissector Table has entries

And this :

local my_dissectors = Dissector.list()

for k,v in pairs(my_dissectors) do print(k.." = "..v) end

Which shows: ... 2097 = pw_eth_nocw ...

So I think I must be pretty close.

Any help would be much appreciated

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I'm attempting to build my first LUA dissector. Specifically I'm writing something to decode PWE3 ControlWords (RFC4385) in more detail than the default one. The dissector I've written works fine but I need to pass the payload to an ethernet dissector.

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/lua_module_Proto.html 11.3 indicates that this should be possible

In another blog I found I should use a call of the form: form:

DissectorTable.get("mpls.label"):get_dissector(2097):call(buffer(4):tvb(), pinfo, tree)
tree)

But this just gives me LUA errors "attempt to index a null value"

I tried this:

local my_table = DissectorTable.list()
 
DissectorTable.list()

for k,v in pairs(my_table) do
   print(k.." = "..v)
endend

local my_dissectors = Dissector.list()
 
Dissector.list()

for k,v in pairs(my_dissectors) do
   print(k.." = "..v)
endend

...
2097 = pw_eth_nocw
...
...