Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Google "Summer of code"

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

vasanth.manickam@xxxxxx wrote:
> I was wondering if the Ethereal community could take part in this
> http://code.google.com/mentfaq.html as a Mentoring Organization. Me and
> a couple of other students are interested in working on the remote
> capture module of ethereal over the summer.

To which remote capture module are you referring?

WinPcap includes remote capture capabilities, and a lot of the code will 
probably just work on UN*X as well, although the *current* protocol 
doesn't, I think, have as much authentication capability as some might 
want - perhaps something SPNEGO-based is called for, allowing the client 
and server to negotiate what flavor of authentication to use.

Remote capture really belongs in libpcap/WinPcap, so that it's available 
to all applications (or, at least, to all applications that use an API 
capable of supporting the authentication required by the capture server).