Re: AX25 in libpcap, tcpdump & ethereal

["Wilson G. Hein" <wilson.hein@verizon.net>]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 03:50, Ralf Baechle DL5RB wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:29:33PM +0000, Richard Stearn wrote:
> 
> > For the foolhardy, desperate or those who just like to live dangerously.
> > 
> > To play with this you will need to be comfortable with using tar, patch
> > & make at the very least and using Linux. The system I am using is a
> > Slackware 8.1 install (kernel 2.4.31)
> > 
> > Attached is a patch that adds AX.25 to:
> > 	libpcap  - recognition and capture
> > 	tcpdump  - decoding AX.25, to a limited extent
> > 		 - decoding an ARP payload
> > 		 - decoding a TCP/IP payload
> > 	ethereal - dissection of AX.25
> > 		 - dissection of an TCP/IP payload
> > 
> > All others are treated as having no L3 protocol and printed in hex
> > and ascii.
> 
> This is excellent news and I hope it means we can soon retire listen(8)
> in favor of the standard tools tcpdump and ethereal!
> 
>   Ralf
> -

I agree that it's good news as far ass the added abilities to tcpdump
and ethereal, but I wholeheartedly disagree with retiring listen. For me
and maybe others, with respect to packet radio, listen is a standard
tool. Even with added abilities to the other tools, only listen provides
me with just what I want to see when monitoring my packet systems on air
activities. Nothing more, nothing less...

Willie, WJ3G