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Install f5 wireshark plugin f5ethtrailer.so on MacOS

The documentation I could find on F5 devcentral about installing the f5 wireshark plugin goes about compiling wireshark from sources, patching the code to include the f5 plugin, etc. After downloading the 2.2.0 version I could see that the plugin is already in binary format, namely f5ethtrailer.so (this goes for all platforms, except windows where this is a dll file).

To install the plugin in wireshark, you just need to figure what is the plugin directory (Wireshark -> About Wireshark (Folders tab) menu in MacOS). The copy the f5ethtrailer.so into the Global Plugins folder. (/Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/PlugIns/wireshark/ in MacOS Sierra)

Then restart wireshark and double check the plugin is present by checking the menu Wireshark -> About Wireshark (Plugins tab)

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