On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Gorry Fairhurst wrote:
> Dear Etherealers,
>
> I would like to ask whether, in the near future, the UDP-Lite protocol
> (as standardized per RFC 3828) will be supported in Ethereal. The
> current version of Ethereal (0.10.13) does not ship with it.
>
> At the University of Aberdeen, we have been maintaining a kernel patch
> for UDP Lite, up to version 2.6.14.3 of the Linux kernel.
> The protocol is not hard to decode (crudely speaking, it is plain UDP
> with a variable-length checksum), but it would be good to have it
> within Ethereal.
>
> To implement an update of Ethereal would cost us much time and so we are
> asking whether someone has already planned to do this. In turn, we offer
> to support this by supplying:
> * protocol trace files (packet captures) whose contents
> conform to RFC 3828
> * kernel patches and test programs
> * scripts to generate reference packet formats are under way
>
> We have also contacted L-E. Jonsson, who is the other author of the RFC,
> but also no further indication of UDP-Lite support in Ethereal
>
> Best regards
> Gerrit Renker (Researcher)
> Gorry Fairhurst (UDP-Lite co-author)
Hi Gorry,
What you could do is create a protocol page on http://wiki.etereal.com and
add your sample capture files. Then post your request to the
ethereal-developer list. That is where most developers live. :)
Blue skies,
Jaap
