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Hello,
when my understanding is correct, the requested
feature
should be provided in packet.dll (when using
winpcap as capture
interface), not in ethereal itself. For a moment, I thought about
starting some work in this direction, but then
decided to make
a stand-alone capture application
instead, just the way Trevor
described. I realized, that handling VJ- and
PPP-compression
would be a lot of work, but I don't need them
in my work now.
It seems to me, that these features are handled
in ethereal
rather than in winpcap, but to make ethereal
understand compressed
data through a pcap file, they have to be decoded (Or is
there a way
to tell ethereal to decode these packets?). When
using the
packet.dll interface, ethereal hopefully can do the decoding as it
does with internal
PPP capture. So I'm still interested to have
serial capture as a winpcap feature. The
stand-alone capture
application seems useful for in-field or remote
operation anyway.
If anyone is interested, who has not yet
made his own serial capture,
I can provide the code.
Best regards,
Frank v. Münchow-Pohl
Bochum, Germany
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