Do you mean to reimplement rpcapd on linux?

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Graham Bloice <graham.blo...@trihedral.com>
wrote:

> Or look at rpcapd:
> https://www.winpcap.org/docs/docs_40_2/html/group__remote.html
>
> On 2 October 2015 at 11:57, Roland Knall <rkn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Would it not be easier to achieve this using an extcap interface? You can
>> see the extcap_example in /doc as well as androiddump for examples. Such
>> interfaces can be configured with a separate options dialog and are quite
>> versatile, and most of all, it does not need you to change dumpcap in a way
>> that it is still working across multiple systems.
>>
>> regards,
>> Roland
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Dario Lombardo <
>> dario.lombardo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi list
>>> Remote capture is not currently supported by the current wireshark under
>>> linux. This can be achieved by ssh + pipe like this
>>>
>>> ssh host 'dumpcap -i bla -w -' | wireshark
>>>
>>> that works flawlessly but is not very user friendly. From the "remote
>>> interfaces" in linux it is stated that remote capture is not supported.
>>>
>>> So I decided to implement the above command programmatically, in order
>>> to have a remote capture under linux too.
>>> As far as I can see this task has to be split in 2 major tasks: adding a
>>> remote ssh support to dumpcap, and add a dialog to handle those option in
>>> the UIs.
>>>
>>> I started with the first task. Using libssh I created a connection to an
>>> ssh server that writes to a temporary named pipe (it's a child), while the
>>> "main" dumpcap reads as usual from that. All seems to work as expected. But
>>> before going further on I'd like to share with you what I've done so far. I
>>> pushed a draft change here
>>>
>>> https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/10740/
>>>
>>> Some examples of use of this support
>>>
>>> dumpcap -i ssh://sshhost/eth0
>>> dumpcap -i ssh://sshhost:sshport/eth2
>>> dumpcap -i ssh://sshhost/eth0 --remote-dumpcap-bin /another/bin/dumpcap
>>> dumpcap -i ssh://sshhost:ssh -A user:strongpassword -w
>>> /tmp/sshhost-capture.pcap
>>>
>>> What still WIP:
>>> - manual
>>> - autotools
>>> - nmake
>>>
>>> Comments, suggestions, ideas appreciated. I'd suggest to give specific
>>> code comments on gerrit, and keep the generic discussion here.
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>> Dario.
>>>
>>>
>
> --
> Graham Bloice
>
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