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Re: proposed new pcap format
From: Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:42:16 +1100 (EST)
In some email I received from Guy Harris, sie wrote:
Are we sure that enough people will be asking for data types that we can't just say "ask us for a type value, we'll give one to you"? That seems to have worked pretty well for DLT_ values so far. If they *truly* want it to be private, they can just ask for a number and we'll give it to them, just as we give out private-use DLT_ values such as the ones used by Cisco, Juniper, and IBM.
I suppose I'm not so much concerned about it being "private" as it being unique. Maybe a vendor field and vendor sub-type field would be useful ? That'd give flexibility in an SNMP kind of way. As well as it being unique, what I'd like is for it to such that a vendor can register a "type" and then have a certain amount of freedom to choose what to do with sub-types, not needing to come back each time. Darren - This is the TCPDUMP workers list. It is archived at http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/index.html To unsubscribe use mailto:tcpdump-workers-request () tcpdump org?body=unsubscribe
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- Re: proposed new pcap format, (continued)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Hannes Gredler (Mar 24)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Michael Richardson (Mar 24)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Jefferson Ogata (Mar 23)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Michael Richardson (Mar 24)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Darren Reed (Mar 24)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Michael Richardson (Mar 25)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Michael Richardson (Mar 24)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Darren Reed (Mar 24)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Michael Richardson (Mar 24)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Darren Reed (Mar 24)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Guy Harris (Mar 24)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Darren Reed (Mar 24)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Michael Richardson (Mar 24)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Darren Reed (Mar 25)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Richard Sharpe (Mar 25)
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- Re: proposed new pcap format Richard Sharpe (Mar 26)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Michael Richardson (Mar 24)
- Re: proposed new pcap format Michael Richardson (Mar 25)