I'd do it as externel helper applications instead of plugins though - doing
it with plugins forces the ethereal analysis process itself to have all the
privileges and capabilities that the capture tool does, which is excessive.
Although I'd guess that you could implement captures as plugins first, and
then provide a plugin that would capture using an external helper.
-- Nathan
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Nathan Neulinger EMail: nneul@xxxxxxx
University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841
Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Feyaerts Johan [mailto:Johan.Feyaerts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 8:21 AM
> To: 'Ronnie Sahlberg'
> Cc: 'ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Where to find more protocols for ethereal
>
>
> Something like a plugin architecture in which you could load
> capture drivers for capturing from various types of physical
> devices would be a nice thing to have. ... and quite a
> challenge to implement I guess ;-)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ronnie Sahlberg [mailto:rsahlber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 11:08 AM
> > To: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Where to find more protocols for ethereal
> >
> >
> > Hi again list,
> >
> > Bored tonight so weird thoughts wanders into my mind.
> > I guess ethereal is soon running short of protocols to add to
> > it so why not
> > come up with something
> > new that might give us lots of other new protocols to add.
> >
> > I just thought, ethereal is basically just a tool to read
> packets and
> > analyze and display the data it contains. Currently ethereal only
> > reads packets from network devices. I cant see it impossible (in
> > theory) to also include other types of packet
> > interfaces/devices as say
> > SCSI/USB/firewire/IDE etc. They are conceptually similar, you
> > send/receive
> > packets.
> > This might actually be extremely useful.
> >
> > If it was possible to access those interfaces (in promisc
> > mode) in any way
> > reasonable similar to netword devices
> > wouldnt it be wild to capture packets on the USB interface?
> > (might help the
> > developers of linux/bsd usb drivers)
> >
> > I cant see why not...
> >
> >
> >
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