Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] FW: [tcpdump-workers] Help on Ethernet Size

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 6, 2007, at 9:50 PM, ARAMBULO, Norman R. wrote:

> So what language can you recommend using for such task?

I'd recommend using compiled machine code, to the maximum extent  
possible. :-)

(I.e., I'd recommend not writing your own code to do it, but instead  
to use an existing app, such as Wireshark, and, if Wireshark doesn't  
do everything you need, adding code to Wireshark and contributing that  
code for other users.  The work Wireshark does to dissect VoIP traffic  
is sufficiently complicated that choosing a language other than C  
probably won't help as much as you might like - especially given that,  
if you start from scratch writing a sniffer for VoIP, you'll have to  
duplicate all the stuff that Wireshark already does.)