Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Wiretap module to interpret pppd trace file

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:25:44 -0400
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 08:53:09PM +0300, Paul Ionescu wrote:
> Is anybody interested to create a wiretap module to interpret the Linux
> PPPD trace file ?
> 
> This trace file in created in Linux with the option "record FILE" in
> /etc/ppp/options config file of pppd, and there is a program named
> "pppdump" which can do some basic interpretation of this trace.
> 
> The benefit of interpreting this file is access to ppp data (PPP
> header,LCP, NCP ,IPCP, etc,) that is hidden if one is trying to capture
> this on ppp0 network device with tcpdump or any other sniffer on Linux.
> 
> If you know any other simple way do access this data under Linux (ppp
> headers,LCP,NCP ...), please let me know.

If you send me a sample file and and output of pppdump of that same file,
I'll attempt to make a wiretap module for it.

--gilbert