[Ethereal-users] HDLC Capture Support?

["Vermillion, Scott" <Scott.Vermillion@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

I see that while the standard ISO implementation of HDLC is not currently
supported by Ethereal, the Cisco variation is.  Given that I have a very
limited software development background (some introductory C++ stuff), how
realistic is it for me to consider taking on development of support of ISO
HDLC?  Is anyone else already pursuing this?

It is my desire to by one of a few PCMCIA cards on the market that have
Windows drivers and support synchronous, bit-oriented protocols.  I want to
monitor live HDLC (Mod 128) traffic without investing $20k in a
hardware-based protocol analyzer.  I want to decode the entire header and
verify the checksum on each frame.  Don't really care about the payload
much.

Thank you for entertaining these questions.

Regards,

Scott Vermillion
SI International Telecom Corp
4040 East Bijou Street 
Colorado Springs, CO 80909
(719) 591-5009 ext. 1636
scott.vermillion@xxxxxxxxxxx