Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] General plugins

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From: Pavel Mores <pvl@xxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:56:45 +0200
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 02:03:51PM -0400, Ed Warnicke wrote:

> Allow me to voice some agreement here.  I would LOVE to see ethereal 
> evolve towards a tool which has the libethereal tools + dissectors as 
> its core, a basic sniffer interface like that which we have already, 
> and the ability to add tools via plugins.  I can think of a half a 
> dozen different tools that USE the dissection and filtering capacity
> of ethereal.

That's *exactly* what I'm talking about. Seeing sniffing and dissection
as an *intermediate* product upon which *lots* of wonderful higher-level
stuff can be built.

	pvl