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
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Joerg Mayer                                          <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
what proactive means.


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