I have updated libpcap to capture traffic from serial COM ports. However, in order to do this I needed to configure the serial port settings before starting the capture. The method I have working is to add the port settings variables to the pcap structure. However, this required a change to the libpcap API by not calling the activate function during the pcap_open_live function if it is a serial port interface and adding a second pcap_configure_serial function that accepts the serial port settings as arguments and then calls the activate function.
Is there a better way to do this so that I can avoid changing the main API? I prefer keeping it within the API and not a config file or something but I don't want to change the main function call structure when starting a capture. Thanks, Thomas Edgar - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
