Re: where to get libpcap-ng?

[Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ottawa on ca>]

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> > > > > "Gianluca" == Gianluca Varenni <gianluca.varenni () cacetech com> writes:
    >>>>>>> "Guy" == Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> writes:
    >> >> Are there any plans to implement this standard in libpcap?

    Guy> At some point I plan to implement support for reading pcap-ng
    Guy> files in libpcap, using NTAR.  I probably won't check that code
    Guy> into the CVS tree until NTAR is an Officially Released Project,
    Guy> so that libpcap can rely on it (it would become a dependency of
    Guy> libpcap).
    >> Vs importing ntar into libpcap?

    Gianluca> What is the advantage of importing it?

a) simplifies dependancies
b) better name recognition
c) ntar really becomes pcap "2.0"
d) easier to fix bugs --- we don't have to work around bugs in
   older versions of ntar in pcap.

Downside:
        file capture format and packet capture mechanism are not
        inheirently related.

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