TODO list for libpcap ======================= Important stuff (to be done before the next release) --------------- General - configure should not be in the CVS. Most open source projects have an autogen.sh script to run autoconf etc. after checkout. I think we should stick to the standard. - The source files should be better documented. There is no official design guideline for what is done where. There should be a common coding style (okay, you can guess that by looking at the code) and a guide for what needs to be documented. Less urgent items ----------------- - Better documentation and cleanup of the interface. I am seeing a few problems at the first glance which needs fixing: + pcap_lookupnet makes little to no sense with protocols != IPv4 + not very well suited for interactive programs (think ethereal). There should be a way for the application to get a file descriptor which it has to monitor and a callback in pcap which has to be called on activity (XXX - "pcap_fileno()" handles the first part, although "select()" and "poll()" don't work on BPF devices on most BSDs, and you can call "pcap_dispatch()" as the dispatch routine after putting the descriptor into non-blocking mode) + too many functions. There are a lot of functions for everything which violates the KISS principle. Why do we need pcap_strerror, pcap_perror and pcap_geterr? + the manpage has a brief description of each function but where is the big picture? Seems like you need to buy UNP for that...