Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: capture IF tcp

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From: Pilz Rene <rene.pilz@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:54:05 +0200
Hi

Guy Harris wrote:

Pilz Rene wrote:

From the logical point of view it makes sense to put this functionality into libpcap. But in the next step it would be necessary to change the format aswell, because it is too weak. Something like ERF
is already better, but still not there where I want to be.


    http://www.tcpdump.org/pcap/pcap.html

The next release of libpcap probably won't write that, but I'd like to get code in that'll read it, or at least read the subset that the current libpcap API can handle (and just ignore the parts it can), so that the release after that can write it without writing files that no older release can read.

This new format looks promising. I will take a closer look at it and try to get into contact with the developers.

So I ask myself if it is still a good place to put it.


Yes, it is.

With this new format: Yes. Small things which are missing now can be added easily afterwards via options.

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