Hi,
I'm part of a group of students at Macquarie University who are going
to be writing an expert analysis framework for ethereal over the coming
months. Basically, we want to provide additional functionality to
ethereal allowing developers to easily write modules to obtain and
display specific information about their network packet captures. At
the moment, we see the main advantage of this over TAP is that
developers will no longer need to write several thousand lines of code
to display stuff on the screen.
At the moment our plans for the module are:
* provide a way to get information out of ethereal (probably in a
similar fashion to TAP)
* provide a way to display the information, initially in a tree
structure, extending at a later stage to a table or ASCII
We were wondering if you guys could suggest some additional things you
might like this to do. We'd also like an idea of where you might be
able to use something like this. At the moment, we are expecting to
have a working version in early September.
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
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