Re: [tcpdump-workers] standard decoder interface.

2005-03-04 Thread Guy Harris
mwcorley wrote: Currently there are features for automated protocol decoding, non linear capture facilities for random access and modified binary searching through savefiles, Note that libpcap has to be able to work on non-seekable input streams, such as pipes, so it can't *require* random access

Re: [tcpdump-workers] standard decoder interface.

2005-03-04 Thread Guy Harris
mwcorley wrote: I think a patch would be cool. It shouldn't be very difficult if using zlib. When you get a chance, open savefile.c of the libpcap source. There is a routine: sf_next_packet(). Pretty much all packet content capture for savefiles is through that method. Essentially, I replaced a