On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:46:34PM +0100, Richard Stearn wrote: > An update on AX.25 in Ethereal. > > I have enquired on the Ethereal list and the attitude (sample of 1) is > that "if the protocol exists and is used then it will be accepted". > Subject to a few pratical provisos. > > The deeper issue I have found is that Ethereal uses libpcap for the > actual packet capture, and libpcap does not support AX.25 as a packet > type. > > There appears to a replacement for libpcap in development within Ethereal > however that is probably a long term project. So my next move is to see > what the issues are with getting the AX.25 packet type added to libpcap. > > It looks to me that AX.25 on Ethereal is going to be a long time coming.
Libpcap is also being used for example by tcpdump, so it's certainly very useful to have it ported anyway. 73 de DL5RB op Ralf -- Loc. JN47BS / CQ 14 / ITU 28 / DOK A21 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
