Re: Patch to add DLT_AX25 handling to libpcap

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

Richard Stearn wrote:

> What the implementors of AX.25 on Linux have done is to hand an KISS
> packet rather than a pure AX.25 packet to the protocol stack.  This
> probably was to accomodate the existing base of hardware where packets
> were delivered to the system via an async serial port and the length of
> the data is prepended.

OK, so perhaps a new DLT_AX25_KISS should be added, to make it clear 
that this isn't just pure AX.25.  (Among other things, some other 
implementations might happen to provide pure AX.25 headers at some point.)

Is KISS a standard independent of Linux?
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