Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap pcap_sendpacket support across platforms.
Mike Schiffman <[email protected]>
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Hi there. Guy Harris CC'd me on the libnet tip so I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring and ask a question: how serious was the discussion around unifying the two libraries? We've talked about it on the libnet list recently (libnet list included on the CC line) and I'm curious what your thoughts are... On Mar 23, 2004, at 1:14 PM, Guy Harris wrote: > > On Mar 23, 2004, at 12:09 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> >> >>>>>>> "Guy" == Guy Harris <[email protected]> writes: >> Guy> I've merged your changes with a version I'd been working on, >> Guy> based on libnet and some stuff we had at Network Appliance, >> and >> Guy> checked the result in. It implements *two* APIs - >> Guy> "pcap_inject()", from OpenBSD, and "pcap_sendpacket()", from >> Guy> WinPcap. >> >> okay. Can we call the next release libpcap 1.0 then? > > Sounds good to me, although there are other API changes I'd want to > make as well for a 1.0 release. > >> Anyone want to make any non-backwards compatible changes to the file >> format? > > I think 1.0 should support the libpcap-next-generation format; I have > some things to add, as have others. > > Both of these mean that 1.0 probably shouldn't come out in the > immediate future, but we just did 0.8 so that's probably not a > problem. > > > > <!DSPAM:4060a8a246016223118835> > > > -- Mike Schiffman, CISSP http://www.packetfactory.net/schiffman Doveryay No Proveryay