Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Where to find more protocols for ethereal

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <rsahlber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 21:07:49 +1100
Hi again list,

Bored tonight so weird thoughts wanders into my mind.
I guess ethereal is soon running short of protocols to add to it so why not
come up with something
new that might give us lots of other new protocols to add.

I just thought, ethereal is basically just a tool to read packets and
analyze and display the data it contains.
Currently ethereal only reads packets from network devices.
I cant see it impossible (in theory) to also include other types of packet
interfaces/devices as say
SCSI/USB/firewire/IDE etc. They are conceptually similar, you send/receive
packets.
This might actually be extremely useful.

If it was possible to access those interfaces (in promisc mode) in any way
reasonable similar to netword devices
wouldnt it be wild to capture packets on the USB interface? (might help the
developers of linux/bsd usb drivers)

I cant see why not...