On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Ed Beroset <beroset@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/16/2017 01:27 PM, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Kvidera, Evan D <EKvidera15@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Wireshark Devs,
>>>
>>> My name is Evan Kvidera and I am a senior undergraduate student studying
>>> Computer Science. I have a decent amount of programming experience, but
>>> only
>>> a little in C. My employer has asked me to try to add support for piping
>>> pcap-ng captures to Wireshark.
>>> I have read over the bug report requesting the feature,
>>> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11370.
>>>
>>> After reading the mailing list archives here,
>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg33336.html,
>>> it
>>> looks like this addition will be nontrivial, but doable, and that the
>>> changes necessary are all going to be in dumpcap.
>>>
>>> I have at least a month or two of full-time work I can dedicate to this
>>> if
>>> necessary, although I am hoping it will not take that long.
>>>
>>> I have read through the Wireshark Developer's Guide and looked over the
>>> style guide for Wireshark. Is there anything else I should know before
>>> starting development? I will try to develop this as independently as
>>> possible, but I may have a few questions along the way.
>>
>>
>> Hi Evan,
>>
>> I looked at this back in 2012 and even proposed a patch that might be
>> useful to you:
>>
>> http://seclists.org/wireshark/2012/May/25
>>
>> No doubt it was a little too simplistic but if I find some time next
>> week while I am in Seattle I might try to resurrect it and see if it
>> works.
>
>
> I've just encountered a need for this as well. Have you made progress,
> Evan? Do you want some help?
Evan seems to have dropped off the radar. I outlined to Evan an
approach for doing this, so I could send it to Ed instead ...
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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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