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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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- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends, (continued)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Robin Jarry via tcpdump-workers (Oct 05)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Guy Harris (Oct 02)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Michael Richardson (Oct 02)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Guy Harris (Oct 02)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Michael Richardson (Oct 02)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Robin Jarry via tcpdump-workers (Oct 03)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Robin Jarry via tcpdump-workers (Oct 01)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Michael Richardson (Oct 02)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Guy Harris (Oct 01)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Michael Richardson (Oct 02)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Avinash H. Duduskar (Oct 02)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Robin Jarry via tcpdump-workers (Oct 12)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Guy Harris (Oct 12)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Vadim Goncharov (Oct 12)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Robin Jarry via tcpdump-workers (Oct 12)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Vadim Goncharov (Oct 18)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Robin Jarry via tcpdump-workers (Oct 26)
- Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends Denis Ovsienko (Oct 12)
