Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] does ethereal team have plan to support decode more scsi comm

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From: Ming Zhang <mingz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:28:21 -0500
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 06:30, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> While it is certainly impressive that you do have 10TB of storage
> available to you for these tests, i do doubt that such large LUNs are
> useful in real world applications   unless you like fsck/scandisk
> taking 10 months or so to complete :-)
> 
> 
> There is no roadmap or official plan for what and when certain things
> in ethereal will be implemented/supported.
> The current number of supported protocols is ~100 times larger than
> the current number of active ethereal developers, which makes things
> take time.
one thing to blah. i saw the long wish list and i think some of them are
important. so for individual protocol, who need it, who write it. :P


> 
> 
> If you tell me which specific commands in SCSI you want implemented
> and can provide me example captures of such commands I can look into
> adding them one by one.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:15:20 -0500, Ming Zhang <mingz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 01:56, Guy Harris wrote:
> > > Ming Zhang wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does ethereal team have plan to support decode more scsi commands?
> > >
> > >       http://www.ethereal.com/faq#q1.6
> > >
> > > It refers to new protocols, but also applies to existing protocols;
> > > there really aren't any Official Plans from The Ethereal Team to add
> > > particular dissection capabilities, those capabilities show up if and
> > > when somebody decides to implement them.
> > >
> > > There might be particular developers with plans to add dissection for
> > > additional commands to the SCSI dissector.
> > ic. sorry for not reading that faq.
> > 
> > ming
> > 
> >