Hello to everybody,
in the last two weeks I tried to implement a simple packet generator
functionality in ethereal. The code for the hex editor is stolen from
netdude, while the rest is "inspired" to gtk/packet_win.c.
It is very rough code, it works only with Linux and GTK 1, and it surely
has many bugs, because it's the first time that I use GTK libs, I have
not much familiarity with ethereal source code, and also because I have
not much time to dedicate to it after work.
I send it to this list only because someone else could perhaps take it
as a starting point and enhance it. At the present moment the generator
has many limitations: it needs that a packet is selected, you cannot
create a packet longer (or shorter) than the selected one, some lines in
the protocol view should not be displayed, I think that some resources
are not deallocated properly, etc...
Surely someone among you knows better than me how to solve this
problems, and could give suggestions about them, if he founds the code
useful.
I attach a patch against the released 0.9.14, hoping it is not too big.
Best regards,
Lanfranco
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