RE: listing all devs

["Fulvio Risso" <fulvio.risso () polito it>]

Hi.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tcpdump-workers () sandelman ottawa on ca
> [mailto:owner-tcpdump-workers () sandelman ottawa on ca]On Behalf Of Gisle
> Vanem
> Sent: domenica 11 maggio 2003 22.20
> To: tcpdump
> Subject: [tcpdump-workers] listing all devs
>
>
> The syntax of the tcpdump '-D' should IMHO be changed and
> merged into the '-i' option. Especially considering the introduction
> of remote and file capture in WinPcap 3.0. We should agree on a
> uniform syntax. How about:
>  List all local devices:     tcpdump -i?
>  List all remote devices:  tcpdump -i rpcap://remotehost/?

This can be done.
The remote daemon in Win32 (rpcapd) already supports this command.
The problem is that you have to use the pcap_findalldevs_ex() instead of pcap_findalldevs().

We chose not to add another #ifdef into the tcpdump/WinDump code in order to keep things simpler.


>  List all capture files in dir: tcpdump -i file://dir/?

This is actually unsupported. It should be a good suggestion.
However, this is a pain from the implementation point of view, since file listing is platform independent. SO, your 
code will have tons of "#define" and this is something I would like to avoid (basically because I'm using only Win32, 
Linux and BSD, and I'm not able to implement and test the code on other platforms).


>  List all capture files in dir: tcpdump -r dir/?
>
> Thus we need some new libpcap functions. pcap_findall_captures()
> and pcap_findall_remote_devs() ?? Should be pretty easy to support
> this in the rpcap daemon.
>
> BTW. There must be a bug somewhere in the Win32 port:
> > windump -i1
> windump.exe: listening on 
> \Device\NPF_{93380695-0E31-456C-9EB0-8802E111C09D}blue►

Could you please refer to the WinDump mlist with some more details?
Cheers,

        fulvio



> > windump
> windump.exe: listening on 
> \Device\NPF_{93380695-0E31-456C-9EB0-8802E111C09D}
>
> Some trailing "blue.." in the first example.
>
> --gv
>
>
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