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Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends


From: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf () sandelman ca>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:59:40 -0400


Bill Fenner <fenner () gmail com> wrote:
    > Hi Robin, thanks for starting this discussion. I'd like to throw another
    > idea into the mix: use the same API for plugins and "native" libpcap
    > implementation. A capture provider is a capture provider, and it could
    > be one registered by code compiled into the library or dynamically loaded
    > as a plugin - that is orthogonal.

Effectively, you are saying that what we build today is just libpcap-native.so?

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