From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Baechle DL5RB Subject: Re: Ethereal ax25 monitoring Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 16:34:50 +0100 Message-ID: <20050901153450.GG2876@linux-mips.org> References: <620c90570508131043a53b9db@mail.gmail.com> <42FE6C9E.2060808@rns-stearn.demon.co.uk> <42FFBDA1.6040400@rns-stearn.demon.co.uk> <4316253A.2060009@rns-stearn.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4316253A.2060009@rns-stearn.demon.co.uk> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Richard Stearn Cc: linux-hams 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 -- Loc. JN47BS / CQ 14 / ITU 28 / DOK A21