From: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Richard Stearn <richard@rns-stearn.demon.co.uk>
Cc: linux-hams <linux-hams@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Ethereal ax25 monitoring
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 16:34:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050901153450.GG2876@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4316253A.2060009@rns-stearn.demon.co.uk>
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:46:34PM +0100, Richard Stearn wrote:
> An update on AX.25 in Ethereal.
>
> I have enquired on the Ethereal list and the attitude (sample of 1) is
> that "if the protocol exists and is used then it will be accepted".
> Subject to a few pratical provisos.
>
> The deeper issue I have found is that Ethereal uses libpcap for the
> actual packet capture, and libpcap does not support AX.25 as a packet
> type.
>
> There appears to a replacement for libpcap in development within Ethereal
> however that is probably a long term project. So my next move is to see
> what the issues are with getting the AX.25 packet type added to libpcap.
>
> It looks to me that AX.25 on Ethereal is going to be a long time coming.
Libpcap is also being used for example by tcpdump, so it's certainly very
useful to have it ported anyway.
73 de DL5RB op Ralf
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Loc. JN47BS / CQ 14 / ITU 28 / DOK A21
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-01 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-13 17:43 Ethereal ax25 monitoring Chuck Hast
2005-08-13 21:56 ` Richard Stearn
2005-08-14 21:54 ` Richard Stearn
2005-08-15 10:28 ` Ralf Baechle DL5RB
2005-08-31 21:46 ` Richard Stearn
2005-09-01 0:21 ` gerard borg
2005-09-01 15:34 ` Ralf Baechle DL5RB [this message]
2005-09-07 21:57 ` Richard Stearn
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