Re: supporting extend 'open live capture' parametes

["Abeni Paolo" <paolo.abeni () telecomitalia it>]

hello,

on Tue 2/5/2008 9:57 PM Guy Harris wrote:
> I need to add:
>       a routine to check whether you *can* set monitor mode, for the benefit 
> of, for example, Wireshark (so it could display a "use monitor mode" 
> checkbox iff you can run with it on or off);
[...]
>       a routine to ask what channels are available.

I thought that such things (pcap API to ask for supported parameters) could be implemented adding dedicated fields into 
the pcap struct (on in a pcap_t sub structure), which must be set by the platform specific pcap_activate(). I think 
this way the whole code should result more compact/simple. Specifically the pcap_activate implementation will grow with 
complexity, while everything else will have a very simple implementation. This should also avoid the necessity to do 
some real/platform specific work into the pcap_create() call in order to reduce duplicate checks into the 
pcap_get_xxxx() APIs. What do you think ?!?

cheers,

Paolo
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