Hmm... wonder what it would take to be able to sniff on a PCI bus:) Ed On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 18:30, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Guy Harris" > Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 6:56 AM > Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] NDMP patch. > > > > > perhaps it is time to implement packet-scsi.c since both ndmp and iscsi > > > would benefit from that one > > > > Probably a good idea. Heck, somebody may decide to add a scheme to log > > Fibre Channel traffic (or parallel SCSI traffic, or IEEE 1394 traffic) > > to a file at some point, adding even more SCSI transports. > > This would be very useful. > Even more useful would be if somtime in the future, patches to libpcap and > selected system kernels > would materialize which would make it possible to sniff a block device such > as scsi adaptors in the same > way as we can sniff network devices. > Best of all would be if such changes to libpcap and the block device drivers > would even allow us to > sniff passively on say an external SCSI bus. Then what we would get would be > a real scsi analyzer, something one could plug > in on a scsi bus to sniff and troubleshoot traffic. > Ah, dreams. > > > > > > i would be very interested in aquiring ndmp captures to test it with, > > > > I may get some at some point (although they may be huge, and may contain > > stuff I'd need to edit out before sending it). > > I would only need a few specific packets containing the CDB commands. Not > anything else. > Use editcap to just select a few such packets. > Also you could just edit the packet payload to clear out any sensitive data > with null bytes. > Dont worry if such changes messes up the checksums. It is easy for me to > just disable the checksum > calculations when testing the dissectors. > Though, packet-scsi.c is nothing more than an idea (albeit a nice and > perhaps useful one) at this point. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ethereal-dev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-dev
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