On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 04:24:18PM -0400, Anand V. Narwani wrote: > A simpler alternative might be to implement a daemon that listens on a > socket and writes to a pipe (or plain file) using the pcap format. All > you need to do is handle the open/close pipe signals to handle the > start/stop capture in ethereal. I believe that the code for this is > reasonably simple and would be easier to implement than abstracting the > capture interface.
I think Anand is right, although I'd like to see a bit more abstraction in wiretap, so that one day captures from other sources like usb might be possible - just dreaming. J�rg -- Joerg Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know what proactive means.
