Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] does ethereal team have plan to support decode more scsi comm

Note: This archive is from the project's previous web site, ethereal.com. This list is no longer active.

From: Ming Zhang <mingz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:18:59 -0500
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 06:30, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> While it is certainly impressive that you do have 10TB of storage
> available to you for these tests, i do doubt that such large LUNs are
those are not real 10TB device. it is a virtual one. i personally can
only afford several disks, half TB to hold my movies. :P

> useful in real world applications   unless you like fsck/scandisk
> taking 10 months or so to complete :-)
> 
if they use > TB device, they will not do simple fsck anyway. :P they
probably will have journal fs or even raw structure. 

and my sole purpose is to test the code limitation. i personally have no
such need in near future.

> 
> There is no roadmap or official plan for what and when certain things
> in ethereal will be implemented/supported.
i can understand this. i have similar experience in the project i
maintained. too many things can do while too little time.


> The current number of supported protocols is ~100 times larger than
> the current number of active ethereal developers, which makes things
> take time.
> 
i can see this.

> 
> If you tell me which specific commands in SCSI you want implemented
> and can provide me example captures of such commands I can look into
> adding them one by one.
> 
my friends and i are working on an iscsi implementation, so we have
interest to support all type of scsi devices while main focus is disk
type, tape type and media changer type.

if u have time to kill, that is better. if not, it is fine. i can work
on it when i need such support.

i will attach some captures on http://wiki.ethereal.com/SampleCaptures

thanks.

ming

> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:15:20 -0500, Ming Zhang <mingz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 01:56, Guy Harris wrote:
> > > Ming Zhang wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does ethereal team have plan to support decode more scsi commands?
> > >
> > >       http://www.ethereal.com/faq#q1.6
> > >
> > > It refers to new protocols, but also applies to existing protocols;
> > > there really aren't any Official Plans from The Ethereal Team to add
> > > particular dissection capabilities, those capabilities show up if and
> > > when somebody decides to implement them.
> > >
> > > There might be particular developers with plans to add dissection for
> > > additional commands to the SCSI dissector.
> > ic. sorry for not reading that faq.
> > 
> > ming
> > 
> >