Re: Ethereal ax25 monitoring

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:46:34PM +0100, Richard Stearn wrote:

> An update on AX.25 in Ethereal.
> 
> I have enquired on the Ethereal list and the attitude (sample of 1) is
> that "if the protocol exists and is used then it will be accepted".
> Subject to a few pratical provisos.
> 
> The deeper issue I have found is that Ethereal uses libpcap for the
> actual packet capture, and libpcap does not support AX.25 as a packet
> type.
> 
> There appears to a replacement for libpcap in development within Ethereal
> however that is probably a long term project. So my next move is to see
> what the issues are with getting the AX.25 packet type added to libpcap.
> 
> It looks to me that AX.25 on Ethereal is going to be a long time coming.

Libpcap is also being used for example by tcpdump, so it's certainly very
useful to have it ported anyway.

73 de DL5RB op Ralf

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