On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 12:19:39PM +0100, Olivier Biot wrote:
> Additionally, we could add support for remote capturing and for
> network taps via an API similar to the libpcap or wiretap API.
How about adding them to an API identical to the WinPcap 3.01 API?
http://winpcap.polito.it/301a/docs/group__remote.html
If that's done in libpcap/WinPcap, it's available to more programs than
just Ethereal.
> As a result, Ethereal would indeed only know about display filters (which I
> *really* want to be renamed to *dissection filters* as I think that's
> a more intuitive name for those), and the interaction with packet
> capturing would be hidden by the file descriptor.
What do you mean "know about"?
Presumably if a user's capturing with Ethereal, they'd supply a capture
filter expression to Ethereal.
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