From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Wilson G. Hein" Subject: Re: AX25 in libpcap, tcpdump & ethereal Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:36:03 -0800 Message-ID: <1131773763.2520.18.camel@CO> References: <4373BBBD.10505@rns-stearn.demon.co.uk> <20051111115014.GB3137@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-reply-to: <20051111115014.GB3137@linux-mips.org> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Ralf Baechle DL5RB Cc: Richard Stearn , linux-hams@vger.kernel.org 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