[dccp] Re: Status of tcpdump and ethereal for DCCP

[acme at conectiva.com.br]

Quoting Ian McDonald <iam4 at cs.waikato.ac.nz>:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm just trying to track down some errors at the moment and using a
> mixture of ethereal, tcpdump and printk etc.
>
> I was just wondering whether anybody working on development is proposing
> to submit patches to tcpdump/ethereal for latest specs? If not I may
> consider doing it...
>
> As I see it the status of tcpdump is that it seems to work with
> Arnaldo/my implementation of dccp (latest specs) with the following patch:
> http://master.kernel.org/~acme/dccp-tcpdump-20050407.patch
>
> NB To build you have to download a weekly CVS build of tcpdump and
> libpcab dated 2004/11/22. It does not seem to have made it into a
> mainline release.
>
> Ethereal does have a patch but doesn't work fully with our release to
> decode due to probably implementing an earlier version of the protocol.
>
> Any comments/people working on patches would be appreciated.

Feel free to get my patch and update it to latest tcpdump snapshot and try
to merge it, it would be great to have DCCP support merged into upstream
tcpdump.

- Arnaldo