BTP Wireshark Plugin

A Wireshark plugin for the Bitnomial Transfer Protocol (BTP): a binary, low latency, direct market access, trading and market data protocol.

Development

During development, a Lua file can be loaded into the Wireshark application with the arguments:

$ wireshark -X lua_script:<file.lua>

This is useful during Wireshark plugin development.

Installation

To install the BTP Wireshark plugin, copy btp.lua to the correct path for your operation system

• Windows users can copy the file to %APPDATA%\Wireshark\plugins\ or WIRESHARK\plugins\, where WIRESHARK is their Wireshark installation location.
• Linux and other unix-like users can copy the file to ~/.local/lib/wireshark/plugins
• macOS users can copy the file to INSTALLDIR/lib/wireshark/plugins, unless they are using an application bundle, in which case they should copy the file to Wireshark.app/Contents/PlugIns/wireshark

More information is available here.

Resources

The following are resources which were useful for the development and maintenance of this plugin.

• Lua documentation
• Wireshark Lua API reference
• Wireshark wiki Lua article
• This step-by-step guide with examples
• This guide to heuristic dissectors