Two things need to be addressed:
* How can traffic be captured over a given bearer?
* How will the captured data be stored?
--> why not use something like ASN.1 for this?
Some interesting bearers/protocols:
* IrDA/OBEX
* USB
* FireWire
* BlueTooth
Sounds *very* interesting!
Regards,
Olivier
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Feyaerts Johan [mailto:Johan.Feyaerts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
: Sent: woensdag 7 november 2001 15:21
: To: 'Ronnie Sahlberg'
: Cc: 'ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
: Subject: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Where to find more protocols for ethereal
:
:
: 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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