As Guy Harris said:
>
> > It appears that work has begun on their RMON capture tool. If they can
> > capture packets via RMON, perhaps a little integration between GxSNMP and
> > Ethereal is in order? They capture, we decode.
>
> Or perhaps add RMON capture capabilities to "wiretap"? I'd been thinking,
> a while ago, about adding them to "libpcap", perhaps along with
> modifications to the way you install capture filters so that it can
> handle cases where the filtering engine isn't BPF (as is the case with,
> for example, STREAMS NIT in SunOS 4.x and DLPI in SunOS 5.x, as well as
> with RMON).
I am not familiar with how to use NIT or DLPI. Can you provide a really
brief summary on how it works? Do you set up a filter in a similar way to
BPF (provide a string which represents the filter)?
What other non-libpcap capture engines are out there?
--gilbert
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