In this section, we'll take a look at Wireshark plugins that are available and see how to develop them.
Now, plugins in Wireshark are dissectors, and dissectors are different ways for Wireshark to analyze and take apart different protocols. If, for some reason, Wireshark is unable to interpret the data you are capturing, you can look for additional dissectors that are out there, or write your own, in order to accomplish what you wish to accomplish.
The Wireshark wiki has a page here on dissectors (https://wiki.wireshark.org/Lua/Dissectors):
It explains how, from a programmatic standpoint, you would handle designing and creating ...
