On Sep 27, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote:

> Yes, I guess one of the problematic things to include pcapng into
> Wireshark is to find a good interface between libwiretap and Wireshark
> (or probably no interface at all). There are a lot of new concepts in
> pcapng that has no counterpart in the current Wireshark  
> implementation.

Yes, the current Wiretap API is insufficient for pcap-NG; it should be  
replaced with an API that can handle pcap-NG, which might also make it  
better able to handle other capture file formats (for example, some  
other capture file formats support user comments, which we currently  
ignore).

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