Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Modest tapping plugins to watch WAP, HTTP and DHCP traffic
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 6:12 AM, jean-michel.fayard wrote:
this is a following of my previous mail. I separate it, because
this set of patches is very independant of the previous one.
I checked in one of the versions of those patches you sent out; you
should probably check to make sure it's the right one, if the patches
were different in the different mail messages.
I also made some changes:
1) I just exported the value_string tables from packet-wsp.c, rather
than exporting routines to return pointers to them;
2) the HTTP dissector now refers to the HTTP response code as a
response code rather than a response method.
This tap mechanism is great : they are simple to write, and
the windows update them in real time (If not, my patch would
have no interest), and if some tapping plugin doesn't interest
you, it doesn't hurt you (no more memory, no GUI bloat,...)
They're not really plugins, although we should eventually support
plugin taps as well as compiled-in taps.
The two bad things I found are
* $ ethereal -z http,stat,<filter> -z bootp,stat,<filter>
currently only start the last window (bootp).
It is a bug in my programs or in the mechanism itself ?
It's probably a bug in the mechanism itself.
* There is a lot of duplication between the code for
ethereal, and the code for tethereal.
Yes. It'd be nice if there were a way to have a tap compute the
statistics and show them as, for example, a table, and have common code
in Ethereal and Tethereal display the table.
