Tools for working with the LAN-XI OpenAPI protocol.
The wireshark/openapi.lua file is a Wireshark dissector for the B&K OpenAPI streaming protocol supported by LAN-XI.
Copy openapi.lua to the Wireshark plugins folder.
The location of the plugins folder might be:
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Windows: C:\Users\(user)\AppData\Roaming\Wireshark\plugins
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Linux: /home/(user)/.local/lib/wireshark/plugins
Alternatively, open Wireshark and look up the folder that it uses: Help - About Wireshark, Folders tab, Global/Personal Lua Plugins
The dissector is implemented in the Lua scripting language.
It is heuristic, which means it is not associated with any TCP or UDP port number.
Instead, Wireshark will call the dissector function for every packet, and the dissector function will return a value that indicates whether the packet was recognized.
To modify or extend the dissector, make modifications directly to the .lua file and then press Ctrl+Shift+L in Wireshark to reload.
For more information on dissector development, see
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Wireshark Lua API: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/wsluarm_modules.html
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The fpm.lua sample that the dissector was based on: https://wiki.wireshark.org/Lua/Examples#A_dissector_tutorial_with_TCP-reassembly
