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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] USB Attached SCSI dissector

From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:08:05 -0700
On Oct 25, 2021, at 12:03 PM, Tomasz Moń <desowin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The heuristic should not be the main USB traffic detection method
> IMHO. The main thing is that people don't necessarily understand that
> capturing full enumeration sequence (aka starting capture before
> plugging in the device) will give you much better dissection in
> multiple cases.

The main thing is that there's no guarantee that you get the full enumeration.

> Recent libpcap versions
> automatically request device and configuration descriptors on capture
> start (easier version request only device descriptor).

Is this done on FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows?

Or is this Linux-only?