[Ethereal-users] Re: UDP-Lite in Ethereal?

[ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

As Jaap K already suggested.

Create a nice wiki page for UDP-lite and upload some example captures
to it and someone will likely implement it before the next release.



On 11/30/05, Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Etherealers,
>
> I would like to ask whether, in the near future, the UDP-Lite protocol
> (as standardized per RFC 3828) will be supported in Ethereal. The
> current version  of Ethereal (0.10.13) does not ship with it.
>
> At the University of Aberdeen, we have been maintaining a kernel patch
> for UDP Lite, up to version 2.6.14.3 of the Linux kernel.
> The protocol is not hard to decode (crudely speaking, it is plain UDP
> with a  variable-length checksum), but it would be good to have it
> within Ethereal.
>
> To implement an update of Ethereal would cost us much time and so we are
> asking whether someone has already planned to do this. In turn, we offer
> to support this by supplying:
>    * protocol trace files (packet captures) whose contents
>      conform to RFC 3828
>    * kernel patches and test programs
>    * scripts to generate reference packet formats are under way
>
> We have also contacted L-E. Jonsson, who is the other author of the RFC,
> but also no further indication of UDP-Lite support in Ethereal
>
> Best regards
> Gerrit Renker (Researcher)
> Gorry Fairhurst (UDP-Lite co-author)
>
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