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Re: Request for DECT LINKTYPE
From: Matthias Wenzel <tcpdump () mazzoo de>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:04:55 +0100
Guy Harris wrote:
On Dec 22, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Matthias Wenzel wrote:
In contrast we have a very specific device, and there's no such thing as a cordless or DECT layer within linux (yet). If there was we'd appreciate to interface and record there... But as of now there's a char device for a special HW, with ioctls and I doubt anyone believes in transporting that very specifig thingie in pcap...I do. You'd have pcap_create() for your platform look for a device string that referred to your device, and call a separate _create routine for your device; that routine would set up the activate routine for your device, and that activate routine would open the character device, set it up for capturing, and set up the other routines for your device, such as the _read routine to read packets from it.
OK, thanks for clarification, I was thinking about a lower layer there... Generally I don't disagree with pulling our stuff in libpcap, but how could we reflect very DECT-specific settings in the pcap API, such as setting a radio channel, setting a RFPI (like a MAC address), switching between async scan mode and synchronized packet capure? matthias - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
Current thread:
- Request for DECT LINKTYPE Matthias Wenzel (Dec 22)
- Re: Request for DECT LINKTYPE Guy Harris (Dec 22)
- Re: Request for DECT LINKTYPE Maciej Grela (Dec 22)
- Re: Request for DECT LINKTYPE Matthias Wenzel (Dec 22)
- Re: Request for DECT LINKTYPE ronnie sahlberg (Dec 22)
- Re: Request for DECT LINKTYPE Matthias Wenzel (Dec 22)
- Re: Request for DECT LINKTYPE Guy Harris (Dec 22)
- Re: Request for DECT LINKTYPE Matthias Wenzel (Dec 23)
- Re: Request for DECT LINKTYPE Guy Harris (Dec 23)
- Re: Request for DECT LINKTYPE Matthias Wenzel (Dec 23)
- Re: Request for DECT LINKTYPE Guy Harris (Dec 22)
- Re: Request for DECT LINKTYPE Guy Harris (Dec 22)
- Re: Request for DECT LINKTYPE Matthias Wenzel (Dec 23)