Mac OS X port?

[google]

Mac OS X port?

[gconnell]

Unfortunately, at the moment porting to OSX, or really any non-Linux, would be really hard. stenographer depends very heavily on AF_PACKET, a linux-only kernel feature, for packet capture. This dependency is very deeply embedded, and it would take a good bit of work to get around it.

The Go code, as you've seen, is pretty language-agnostic. The C++ code, specifically stenotype/packets.cc, is where the real dependency comes into play.

We could fall back to libpcap, I guess, but with a drastic performance degradation. steno really is all about performance, so I'm not sure this is worth the effort.

[DubhAd]

It would be interesting to know what that impact would be. I'm using capture cards (Emulex DAG), which don't provide a network interface, but do support a modified libpcap. Stenographer has the features I want, but requiring AF_PACKET means it's unusable for me, which is frustrating :)