Re: Re: -e vs. -x, revisited

[Guy Harris <guy () netapp com>]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:35:57PM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:
> ps - i am reminded of something else i wanted at one point...i wanted
> to put *all* the dissector routines into libpcap,

I think that goes beyond what I'd consider libpcap's charter.  Not all
applications using libpcap would want to use tcpdump's dissectors.

However:

> enhance their
> interfaces somewhat so that more things could be passed in (flags,
> input buffer pointer and length, output buffer pointer and length,
> etc), so that i could say, in my code:
>
>       hmm....here's a packet, would you please dissect it into a
>       "human readable format" and place that representation in this
>       buffer?
>
> tcpdump would call the dissectors and then just print the results.
> goofy idea?

that could go into a "libtcpdump" - and Michael Richardson has been
working on such a library.
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