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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KSniffer
From:       Hamish Rodda <rodda () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-11-10 8:17:27
Message-ID: 200411101917.30289.rodda () kde ! org
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Hi Gianni,

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 05:40 am, you wrote:
> Alle 14:16, sabato 6 novembre 2004, Hamish Rodda ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 11:59 pm, Giovanni Venturi wrote:
> > > Alle 02:59, sabato 6 novembre 2004, Hamish Rodda ha scritto:
> > > > Have you considered looking at Ethereal to see if it might be easier
> > > > for you to integrate it into your program, rather than duplicating
> > > > much of the ability that ethereal already has?
> > >
> > > What do you mean? I have to write a KDE front end to ethereal? A
> > > fontedn using tcpdump for example? If so. Why? Everyone can use
> > > Ethereal.
> >
> > I must misunderstand you then, I thought KSniffer was to be a KDE
> > replacement for/clone of Ethereal.
>
> You don't misunderstand me, but I'm not so inside KDE developing to
> understand all the benefits and the advantages I can get in this way. I
> haven't so much time to divide KSniffer in 2 parts: a text sniffer and a
> GUI for the text sniffer. For me it's simplest have just one piece that
> sniffs and displays the sniffed packets. I'm trying to write KSniffer
> because the only GUI sniffer I know it's written with GTK and no with
> Qt/kdelibs. The problem is to understand sometime of libpcap programming.
> Ethereal is the only and the best GUI sniffer program I know and I can't
> pretend to do better, but just to trying to write something like that for
> KDE and made it availbale to KDE community. If no one is going to use it I
> don't care. I'm trying to do my best because it's my little dream, my
> personal challenge to write the code for this kind of program. I like
> network programming.
> Gianni

That's fine, in fact I encourage this... I was just wanting to inform you of 
an alternative.  Good luck with your coding.

Cheers,
Hamish.

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