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-Things to do:
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-*) Protocol dispatchers, allowing run-time setting of protocol "chaining"
-(i.e., UDP port X calls dissector Y)
-
-*) Work on packet capturing in wiretap - or just make it a wrapper
-around libpcap/WinPcap, hiding some of the stuff Ethereal and
-Tethereal currently have to do independently
-
-*) Either as part of the previous item, or as a capture-filter
-translator that generates "libpcap"-style capture filter expressions,
-provide a capture filter syntax similar to the display filter syntax. 
-(The syntax differences get in the way of users; the fact that you have
-to construct some filters by hand, e.g.  looking only for initial SYN
-packets for TCP connections by doing bit-testing of the flags in a TCP
-header has been a pain for some users; and people have asked for
-capabilities that aren't conveniently available, or aren't available at
-all, in "libpcap"-style capture filters:
-
-       the ability to filter on characteristics of IPX packets;
-
-       the ability to select, for example, TCP packets with port
-       numbers *greater than* a particular value, which in "libpcap"
-       filters you have to do by explicitly testing subfields of the
-       TCP header rather than doing "tcp.port > 1000";
-
-       etc.)
-
-*) I just discovered that sshd sets the SSH_CLIENT variable to source IP,
-source port, and destination port. That coupled with a destination IP
-would give us enough information to carry out remote protocol capturing,
-tcpdump over ssh:
-
-       ssh remotehost tcpdump -s 2000 -w - filter,
-
-where "filter" filters out our own ssh packets (using the infromation
-from $SSH_CLIENT). Any takers?
-
-*) Of course, packet defragmentation.  We currently reassemble:
-
-       IP fragments
-       IPv6 fragments
-       OSI CLNP segments
-       ONC RPC-over-TCP and DCE RPC fragments
-       802.11 fragments
-       X.25 packets with M set
-       ATP fragments
-       EAP/TLS fragments
-       Fibre Channel fragments
-       Netware NDPS fragments
-       NBF fragments
-       Fragmented SNA BIUs
-       TDS (Sybase/Microsoft SQL Server) fragments
-       WTP fragments.
-
-   and currently support, for many protocols running atop TCP and the
-   SMB pipe protocol, reassembling the data stream and breaking the
-   resulting stream into higher-level packets.  We want to support that
-   for more TCP-based protocols; we might also want to reassemble:
-
-       NBDS
-       PPP Multilink
-
-   and possibly other protocols.
-
-*) I'd like to someday re-write the display filter routines to have a more
-powerful syntax.
-
-*) More on-line help, and neato things with the protocol tree and
-right-clicks.
-
-*) A GtkClist replacement, with dynamic columns, allowing columns to be
-added, removed, or moved without having to exit and restart Ethereal.
-(guy)
-
-*) A GUI capture/display filter creator (we have stuff to add fields to
-display filters, but perhaps something such as what Network Monitor has,
-to add AND/OR/NOT operators, would be useful)
-
-*) Run-time configuration of tunnelling protocols -- display tunnelled
-protocol as data or as a full-fledged protocol (which subtree do we put
-it under?)
-
-*) Run-time configuration of data shown in capture statistics window.
-
-*) A GtkWidget for authors in the About box. We've got a lot of authors!
-We've currently banished the list of authors to the AUTHORS file and the
-man page, which may be the right solution here. [DONE]
-
-*) Finish moving GTK-dependent code into gtk/ subdirectory. [DONE]
-
-*) Provide alternative user interfaces, e.g. other toolkits (Qt/KDE,
-full GNOME, native Windows, native Aqua, etc.) and text-mode "curses".
-
-*) Kerberos version 4 dissector - standard krb4 - from tcpdump (nneul);
-we have krb5, but not krb4
-
-*) Build process:
-  - Merge epan/configure.in back into toplevel configure.in [DONE]
-  - Run make-version.pl only once per make
-  - --enable-static doesn't build on all platforms any more (e.g. Suse 9.0)
-    because all static builds are not supported on those platforms. Try to
-    link "as statically as possible"
-  - Support native win32 builds using auto-tools and gcc
-  - Move dissectors and supporting files into the epan tree
-  - Move plugins into the epan tree
-  - move libs/objects to be linked into LDADD_xxx where appropriate
-  - make heimdal detection work for everyone
-
-*) Allow packet summary and packet dissection as valid "fields" in display
-   filter tests:
-  - summary matches "(?i)response"
-  - dissection contains "Unknown"