Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] IrDA dissector plugin

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From: "Pia Sahlberg" <piabar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 03:22:48 +0000

OK   my bad

If we can just get someone to do the same for USB interfaces we should be all set.
Don't forget Bluetooth....

USB would be one important step out of many.

To be honest I dont see any difference between a Ethernet nic and an atapi controller. Both take and return blobs of data that have some semantic meaning (protocol description).

Since we do packet analysis we also need
Firewire
ATAPI
SCSI
...

As long as two entities exchange data blobs/pdus ontop of any sort of transport mechanism ethereal should be there to analyze the sanity/consistency of the exchanged data. I feel the failure to capture/store-in-libpcap-files/analyze USB/firewire/ATAPI/(parallell/FC)SCSI/etc to be bugs. As time moves on, some of these bugs will be resolved by the people in those areas
knowing how to implement a fix to them.



Like as for very soon we will be able to say :
Not even do so primitive analyzers still exist that cant even measure application layer response times, they are so incredibly primitive they dont even decode USB!

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