Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Splitting up Ethereal

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From: Erwin Rol <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 01:15:37 +0100
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 01:07, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:21:14PM +0100, Erwin Rol wrote:
> > Or when the
> > capturing part is split up it would be easier to make specialized
> > monitoring tools that for example only monitor one protocol and display
> > it in a way that is not useful for other protocols.
> 
> What more than just calls to libpcap would be in the capturing part?
> 
> I.e., why would anything more than libpcap be useful to those monitoring
> tools?

The reading and writing of capture files? It was also just an example,
not a 100% technically correct proposal :-)

- Erwin

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