Something like a plugin architecture in which you could load capture drivers
for capturing from various types of physical devices would be a nice thing
to have. ... and quite a challenge to implement I guess ;-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronnie Sahlberg [mailto:rsahlber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 11:08 AM
> To: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Where to find more protocols for ethereal
>
>
> 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...
>
>
>
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