Using the decoders in other applications?

[Aaron Turner <aturner () pobox com>]

Hey everyone,

I'm sure many of you are somewhat familar with tcpreplay which I
currently maintain (http://tcpreplay.sf.net for those of you not).
Lately I've recieved a few requests to add support for decoding of
packets to STDOUT as they are sent on the wire.

Obviously, I have no wish to reinvent the wheel, and I immediately
started looking at figuring out a way to optionally link, include, etc 
the tcpdump code.

Turns out that this appears to be a lot more complicated then I had
hoped.  So I figured I'd email the list and try to find out:

1) If anyone has done something like this before and had some
suggestions?

2) If any plans have been made to modularize/librarize the code so that
the decoders could be used in other applications without declaring a
bunch of global variables?

3) If someone has a better idea of how to accomplish the above goal.

Thanks,
Aaron

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