# How to implement TCP/UDP protocol in Packetbeats

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-implement-tcp-udp-protocol-in-packetbeats/52982>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** packetbeat\
**Created:** [June 16, 2016, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-implement-tcp-udp-protocol-in-packetbeats/52982 "2016-06-16T11:27:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-implement-tcp-udp-protocol-in-packetbeats/52982/2 "2016-06-16T12:48:57Z")

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Take a look at this thread. It has some good information about adding a new protocol. [Protocol for ISO messages](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/protocol-for-iso-messages/52685)

> [@Ravi\_Shanker\_Reddy](#):
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> Can anybody have the plug and play archive for TCP & UDP protocols. Or any others ways to do this in a simple manner.

Do you mean some kind of pluggable way to add protocol support at runtime? This isn't possible with Go at the moment since everything is statically linked.

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