Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Capturing from Switches etc via SNMP

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From: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 12:29:47 +0200 (CEST)
Hi there,

> On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 12:52:26PM -0500, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > a colleague told me abuot btng which he has alread used. It's an RMON
> > agent the compiles on several Unix platforms, so it should not be a
> > problem to have your own probe for testing :-)
> > 
> > ftp://dnpap.et.tudelft.nl/pub/btng  (Beholder, the next generation)
> 
> Has anyone successfully compiled this? I could not compile version 6.5
> on Linux or Solaris, but I *almost* got 6.0 compiled on Solaris, but I
> had some missing symbols.

i used it for a while on Linux/AXP because a year ago CMU war horribly
broken on 64bit and UCD didn't work either. I can try to make an RPM out
of this...

I'm very interested in this RMON topic myself as we plan to provide some
RMON functionality for gxsnmp, as well. In gxsnmp, we have written an
asynchronous SNMP layer which uses the glib event loops. This might be
interesting to do non-blocking SNMP operations. The SNMP layer is BTW
partly derived from btng :)

One other nice feature would be for wiretap to grok the format used by
netfilter devices of the new 2.3.x netfilter code. This would make 
ethereal a cool tool to analyze firewall logs :)

Cheers,
Jochen