On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:35:57PM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote: > ps - i am reminded of something else i wanted at one point...i wanted > to put *all* the dissector routines into libpcap,
I think that goes beyond what I'd consider libpcap's charter. Not all applications using libpcap would want to use tcpdump's dissectors. However: > enhance their > interfaces somewhat so that more things could be passed in (flags, > input buffer pointer and length, output buffer pointer and length, > etc), so that i could say, in my code: > > hmm....here's a packet, would you please dissect it into a > "human readable format" and place that representation in this > buffer? > > tcpdump would call the dissectors and then just print the results. > goofy idea? that could go into a "libtcpdump" - and Michael Richardson has been working on such a library. - This is the TCPDUMP workers list. It is archived at http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/index.html To unsubscribe use mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe
