Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Capturing from multiple interfaces, and why we need this.

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 01:59:43 +0100
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 04:24:55PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> One disadvantage of that solution is, of course, that you'd only be able
> to use it with versions of libpcap that support that split of parsing
> and code generation.

Actually, I'd prefer to just take the code and put it into wiretap, just
as we are providing our own versions of vsnprintf etc in case they are
missing.
The interface libpcap should provide is which version of compiled code
it supports. It should also make the bpf compiler available as a
source plugin. That way we could let configure determine whether to use
the version in libpcap or our backup copy.
Thinking a bit more about it: We should always use our copy (which should
require litte to no change to the original libpcap source files).

 Ciao
     Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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