Hmmm . . . good point. I wonder if it would be worth it to extend libpcap?
It might be easier to start a new capture library for USB/etc from scratch.
On Wednesday, 07 Nov 2001, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
> Seems to me that the easiest way to get started on this would be the old
> idea of separating that capture mechanism from ethereal itself into a small
> external tool. You could then easily add capability for selecting from a
> variety of external capture tools. (This also resolves some of the security
> issues with allowing non-root access to ethereal.)
>
> The real problem though becomes the limitations of libpcap, since it is
> currently defining the encapsulations/media-types/etc. If ethereal were to
> do that itself, it would be easy enough to add a 'usb' encapsulation type.
>
> -- Nathan
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ronnie Sahlberg [mailto:rsahlber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 4:08 AM
> > To: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Where to find more protocols for ethereal
> >
> >
> > Hi again list,
> >
> > Bored tonight so weird thoughts wanders into my mind.
> > I guess ethereal is soon running short of protocols to add to
> > it so why not come up with something new that might give us
> > lots of other new protocols to add.
> >
> > I just thought, ethereal is basically just a tool to read
> > packets and analyze and display the data it contains.
> > Currently ethereal only reads packets from network devices. I
> > cant see it impossible (in theory) to also include other
> > types of packet interfaces/devices as say
> > SCSI/USB/firewire/IDE etc. They are conceptually similar, you
> > send/receive packets. This might actually be extremely useful.
> >
> > If it was possible to access those interfaces (in promisc
> > mode) in any way reasonable similar to netword devices
> > wouldnt it be wild to capture packets on the USB interface?
> > (might help the developers of linux/bsd usb drivers)
> >
> > I cant see why not...
> >
> >
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