Re: New APIs to support multiple DLT_'s on an interface

[Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net>]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:26:01PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:50:14AM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:
> > since netbsd's -D and -L seem instrinsically related, yet the official
> > tcpdump -D doesn't seem that far off, and since the netbsd change is
> > rather recent, how about merging/switching the two functionalities?
> > this would mean that -D would give me (for example):
> >
> >     % tcpdump -D
> >     1.lo0   NULL
> >     8.ep0   EN10MB
> >     9.wi0   EN10MB IEEE802_11
>
> Yes, that might be a good idea, although that doesn't offer an option to
> display just the link-layer types for one particular interface - I guess
> we could allow "-i" and "-D" to be used together, and have that display
> the link-layer types for the interface specified with "-i" (and maybe
> leave out the interface number if that's done).

It also doesn't help with the issue I was mentioning, which was that
"-D" was already taken by WinPcap to mean "show a list of interfaces",
and wasn't available for the NetBSD use meaning "set the DLT type for an
interface".
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