Armen,
I might be interested in such a tool. Also, by 'bootstrapping
portion' do you mean the one-time epan structure
initialization/destruction calls as well as the proper init/malloc/
free per-packet calls?
rkm
On Mar 12, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Armen Babikyan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A few months ago, I wrote a tool that lets me use Wireshark's packet
> dissection capabilities in Matlab, to numerically analyze packets.
> For
> example:
>
>>> b = tshark_read('ws1.pcap', {'frame.number', 'ip.version',
> 'tcp.seq', 'udp.dstport', 'frame.pkt_len'}, 'ip.version eq 4')
>
> b =
>
> 1x14630 struct array with fields:
> frame_number
> ip_version
> tcp_seq
> udp_dstport
> frame_pkt_len
>
>>> b(3)
>
> ans =
>
> frame_number: 6
> ip_version: 4
> tcp_seq: []
> udp_dstport: 9618
> frame_pkt_len: 1042
>
>>>
>
> With this array of structs, a Matlab programmer could trivially plot
> packet fields with respect to time, or whatever.
>
> My code, however, makes use of (among other things) the general
> bootstrapping portion of libwireshark's API, and I've run into
> compatibility issues between successive versions of Wireshark that
> have
> similar, but not identical, bootstrapping APIs. Does the Wireshark
> project intend to standardize this part of the libwireshark soon?
>
> If the Wireshark is not intending to standardize libwireshark's API
> anytime soon, would the developers consider creating #defines for
> major,
> minor, and minorminor numbers for the current version of wireshark,
> so I
> can create preprocessor directives based on these to account for
> further
> changes to the libwireshark API? For example, I'd like something
> like this:
>
> #define VERSION "0.99.5" // already exists
> #define VERSION_MAJOR 0
> #define VERSION_MINOR 99
> #define VERSION_MINORMINOR 5
>
> Lastly, is the general public interested in this tool?
>
> Let me know your thoughts. Thanks!
>
> Armen
>
> --
> Armen Babikyan
> MIT Lincoln Laboratory
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] . 781-981-1796
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wireshark-dev mailing list
> Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org
> http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
_______________________________________________
Wireshark-dev mailing list
Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org
http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
