Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Splitting up Ethereal

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 16:07:34 -0800
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:21:14PM +0100, Erwin Rol wrote:
> Or when the
> capturing part is split up it would be easier to make specialized
> monitoring tools that for example only monitor one protocol and display
> it in a way that is not useful for other protocols.

What more than just calls to libpcap would be in the capturing part?

I.e., why would anything more than libpcap be useful to those monitoring
tools?