["Jayanna, Jay" <jjayanna@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you, Ulf Lamping for the reply & for sending the links to the capture mechanism.

 

I meant dissectors when I said plugins. My plugin / dissector on the client side sends the packets that it receives, over TCP to the server. The plugin / dissector collects the packets & puts it back into the ethereal stack for it to sniff. I spawn off a server thread in proto_register_server, which creates a socket, binds a port to it & listens on it. It spawns off a thread for every connection it accepts. Hence each data / packets from each client is received in a different thread. And then I use call_dissector() in dissector_server to send the packet to IP. I am able to view the packets if I write it to a file (tethereal –w result) & then open it in ethereal. But if I hit the capture button, ethereal quits.

 

I think its because the child process that forks off during ethereal kills my threads, but I am not too sure if this is the reason. Please let me know what you think.

 

Thanks,

Jay.