Re: Remote capture support in libpcap

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

Hi Stig.
Wehen I developed the remote part, in 2002, everthying compiled also on Linux 
and BSD. WinPcap included also a makefile running on these system; it was enough 
to unpack WinPcap on Unix, type "configure" and bla bla and everything worked.
However, it's long time that I don't check the status of the remote portion.
However, be careful because there's a conceptual bug in the remote protocol that 
allows only ONE request each time. In other words, you must send a command and 
wait for the related response before sending another command.
In Windows (with Analyzer) I had some trouble in that respect, but for different 
reasons (first of all, we have to change the protocol, which is a pain for the 
necessity of supporting older implementations) I haven't had the time to do 
this. I re-defined the protocol in order to cope with this problem, but I never 
re-implemented it.

Cheers,

        fulvio

On 01/12/2008 23.22, Stig Bjørlykke wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Is it possible to get the remote capture capability ported from
> winpcap back to libpcap?  I find this feature very easy to use in my
> development environment, and would really like to have this support in
> the official libpcap.
>
> I know I can use the code from winpcap and make my own version of
> libpcap (which I do right now), but this is no long term solution.  I
> also know I can tunnel the data through ssh, but this is not as easy
> to use.
>
> I'm primary working with Wireshark.

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