Using MINA for TCP conversation construction / PCAP related

["Beno, Tal" <ta...@hp.com>]

Hello,
I have a general question please.

I am engaged in a project where I want to construct TCP packets (which passes through a machine via one of the interfaces) into TCP conversations, much like Wireshark and some other tools are doing their TCP tracing.

Can MINA play some role in such a project? Anyone tried it in conjunction with PCAP? I may not grasp the extent of MINA thus might be confusing concepts, so please pardon me. In general I would also be grateful if you can think of a good advice how I can do it or know of an opensource which provides good enough programmatic APIs for that.

Cheers,
Tal

Re: Using MINA for TCP conversation construction / PCAP related

[Mark Renouf <ma...@gmail.com>]

If you're asking specifically about Java, I think this might be useful:
http://jpcap.sourceforge.net/ (Haven't used it myself though... )

It would be very possible to hook MINA to that to handle protocol
decoding, using pcap as a transport.
AbstractPollingConnectionlessIoAcceptor might be a good place to start
with that.

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Beno, Tal <ta...@hp.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>  I have a general question please.
>
>  I am engaged in a project where I want to construct TCP packets (which passes through a machine via one of the interfaces) into TCP conversations, much like Wireshark and some other tools are doing their TCP tracing.
>
>  Can MINA play some role in such a project? Anyone tried it in conjunction with PCAP? I may not grasp the extent of MINA thus might be confusing concepts, so please pardon me. In general I would also be grateful if you can think of a good advice how I can do it or know of an opensource which provides good enough programmatic APIs for that.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Tal
>