Sometimes it would be nice to run a remote capture directly from a pcap enabled tool such as ethereal.
Security would be a major issue. Also would buy in from pcap folks so that all applications linking with pcap would gain the capability automagically. Would wrapping the pcap API inside ONC-RPC and a requirement that GSS-API must be supported be an acceptable solution. If such a protocol could be deviced and implemented in a prototype implementation, would it be possible in a future to get such protocol implemented and accepted into libpcap as the client side of such an RPC protocol? It would require that libpcap would likely become dependent on XDR, RPC and GSSAPI. - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
