["John McDermott" <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi,
>
>   Here's an idea I had a time ago and I have been building up since
> then. Finally (thanks to privilege separation) I believe it's use has
> become feasible. And lately, while reading RFC 3611 (RTCP Extended
> Reports) I got the final piece I was looking for, so I put down the
> idea:
>
> The Idea is a protocol to have sniffing clients and a sniffing servers
> communicate. Part like RTSP, and part like RTP+RTCP with
> retransmissions.
...
> That's what I have until now, any ideas?
> Any Ideas are welcome.
>
> If we add this feature I believe we would have something worth
> $$$$$$... if we only had a poster. :-)

This sounds really cool and well thought out.  Maybe I'm missing
something, though.  What about RMON? Yes, it has another filtering
language and yes, it is not "real time" in the sense that Ethereal is, but
mightn't it be an appropriate solution?  Then, Ethereal could
inter-operate with existing probes and so forth.

Just a thought.

--john