Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] What should be in version 1.0?

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From: Sergio Barresi <sbarresi@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 14:45:42 +0200
On Wed, 09 Sep 1998, Gilbert Ramirez Jr. wrote:
>As Gerald Combs - Unicom Communications said:
>
	[snip]

>>   - Gilbert and I had a discussion a while back, and we both agree
>>     that we need more functionality from libpcap than is currently
>>     available.  LBL might accept patches for bug fixes, but they might
>>     not want mods to handle other file formats, network hardware, or
>>     extended filter directives.
>
>Yes, I think we'll have to develop our own library. I thing libepcap or
>whatever will need:
>
>	The same cross-platform portability as libpcap.
>
>	Fixes to Linux Token-Ring capturing (which I have to put in ethereal
>	because libpcap doesn't do it).

Well, I am hacking just now the libpcap because I have some problems with
the token ring. 
I have a Olicom card (driver for linux 2.0.33), who support the promiscuous
mode, but the driver use a varible RIF; 
Now I can filter using the MAC address of a host, but for every other
filtering, the filter must calculate the RIF length for every packet. I have an
idea how to make this, but I am a little confused (a subtle understatement :-)
from how the parser generate the jumps.
If someone would like to discuss this extension to the libcap can write to this
address: sbarresi@xxxxxxxxx.

Now my little add to the wish list:

- a printer for netbios.

    Sergio