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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Adding a new data source

From: Akos Vandra <axos88@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 19:24:08 +0100
Thanks for this info, I'll take this discussion to the mentioned list then.

Ákos

On 3 December 2011 19:02, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Dec 3, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Akos Vandra wrote:
>
>> So in order to support a new data source only libpcap should be
>> modified?
>
> Ideally, yes.
>
>> I have no experience with it, so I'm not sure how wireshark
>> and libpcap are interfaced... Does libpcap offer a list of available
>> capture source for wireshark,
>
> Yes - that's pcap_findalldevs().
>
>> so it can use a new capture source
>> without any modification to wireshark?
>
> Yes.
>
>> In this case the libpcap developers would be more able to help me get started...
>
> Yes.  Join tcpdump-workers@xxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>        http://www.tcpdump.org/#mailing-lists
>
> (it's a fairly low-volume list) and ask about it there.  Give details of your new packet source, including the OSes on which it should be supported and the link-layer header type (if it's not one of the ones described at
>
>        http://www.tcpdump.org/linktypes.html
>
> you'll need a new link-layer header type value no matter *how* it's to be supported in Wireshark).
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