Re: text format stability

["Fulvio Risso" <fulvio.risso () polito it>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tcpdump-workers-owner () lists tcpdump org
> [mailto:tcpdump-workers-owner () lists tcpdump org]On Behalf Of Guy Harris
> Sent: giovedi 1 luglio 2004 8.25
> To: tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org
> Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] text format stability
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 07:34:44AM +0200, Fulvio Risso wrote:
> > Ethereal is able to prodice PDML output (altough it uses a
> slightly modified
> > dialectn of PDML).
>
> What are the modifications?

As far as I remember, in Ethereal:
- field names include the protocol name
- there are some additional fields in the "packet header" section


>  (Note that one problem is that PDML's field
> names come from the NetPDL specification for the protocol - this means
> that either
>
>       1) a different NetPDL spec for the protocol
>
> or
>
>       2) a dissector not using NetPDL - for example, created before
>          NetPDL existed
>
> might result in different field names.

This is correct, but it does not lead to a different format for the PDML
file.
It does only affects the full compatibility between PDML files generated by
Ethereal when read by Analyzer.

        fulvio

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