Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] Some more advice, brainstorming, please.
Sorry to interrupt you again, but I guess it is precisely from
the networking experts from whom I can get best advice. :-)
By today I was running out user suggested ideas to release my
daily revision of etherape, so while trying to get a nap I tried
to think what would be necessary to implement interman
functionality into etherape.
And I've realized it is so very little that maybe it's worth it
to generalise, and not limit myself to ether addresses, or
ip addresses.
Let me explain myself. Etherape works by recognising unique nodes
from the network traffic. Just about the only thing I have to
change is the binary tree comparison function, to compare ip
addresses, instead of ethernet ones.
My question here is: does anybody here find value in trying
to implement a generalisation of this? That is, is there a
"market" for network representations other than "by ethernet
address" and "by ip address"?
I guess one obvious one would be to make it work with other
different level 3 protocols, but I guess/hope that you guys
might come up with some other ideas. :-)
PS: If anyone thinks this is not the right place to post
these questions, just leave me a personal mail and I will
stop posting immediately . It's just that this is going so
fast that people hasn't cared to join my own mailing list
yet, and I think these subjects deserve some debate so that
I can code thinking in future extensions.
Regards,
Juan.
