Re: [Ethereal-users] HDLC Capture Support?

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:32:07AM -0600, Vermillion, Scott wrote:
> What, if any, are your thoughts on a PCMCIA card that has windows drivers
> for raw HDLC?  Could Ethereal theoretically capture directly from such an
> "interface?"

Only if WinPcap supports it, or if you write your own code for Ethereal
to use whatever packet-capture mechanism the card's driver supports, if
any.

To use WinPcap, you'd have to ask the WinPcap developers:

	http://winpcap.polito.it/contact.htm

whether WinPcap would allow applications using WinPcap (such as
Ethereal) to capture raw HDLC packets.

To write your own code, you're on your own.  Plugging that code into
Ethereal would probably be the relatively easy part; the hard part would
probably be writing that code in the first place, and I know nothing
about how to do that.