Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Alternative to USBPcap and Possibility of having our device as an Opensource HW plat

["Varuna De Silva" <varunax@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

We were to develop a SS7 protocol analyzer, from the scratch 
for our final year UG project. But this nice piece of SW in Wireshark,
made our lives easy, But now, though our professor, welcomed the
usage of wireshark, wants us to go more with something extra.

So we thought of decoding raw USB protocols with wireshark, on 
Windows, I know that its already done on linux. We dont have much 
time left to do this. So hope to do it in a quite an easy way if 
feasible. 

This is what we hope to do, we will use the filter driver, of snifferusb2.0,
and hope to get the raw usb packets, then I will write the porting file ( the 
famous pcap-xxx.c file), similar to one which we are doing 
to integrate our hw, and integrate it with pcap-win32. 

Since this sniffer is also opensource, hope its ok. 

Any comments ? Or just tell if we are going to do something 
foolish. Can we use the dissectors that are already written for the 
linux platform. 

The next question is that, we are able to have the piece of 
HW that we developed and which will be in a working condition by the mid of 
next month, as an Opensource HW platform compatible with 
(If not only with) Wireshark. It can intercept a physical TDM line, 
to display the messages going on it. Is anything like this 
possible with wireshark. 

Thanks Alot for your help

Varuna