Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] SQL patch

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From: John McDermott <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:04:35 -0700
This sounds like a great idea to me. It has so many uses byond SQL encoding. I once did a limited tcpdump->HTML perl script to create a poor man's remote network monitor. If tethereal could dump to XML directly, generating HTML would be "simple". Having XML output of [t]ethereal would be very useful to me. 

--john

Richard Urwin wrote:

On Thursday 30 Oct 2003 9:49 pm, Jason House wrote:


Let me answer with questions ;)

What % of the protocols that ethereal dissects...
  ...place every registered field in every dissected packet? (ie udp)
  ...place at most one copy of a field in every dissected packet?
     (udp would qualify if it wasn't for udp.port)
  ...contain variable length lists of fields?  (ie. ospf)
  ...have many fields that are sometimes used? (ie. ospf's lsa's)
Howabout dumping to XML, and letting users use other tools if they want SQL. Those tools exist (IIUC), and XML can handle the complexity. 




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