Re: I Need to register some DLTs

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

On Aug 24, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Luis EG Ontanon wrote:

> Hi,
> I Need to register two DLTs they would be:
>
> DLT_MTP2_MULTISTANDARD
> that will have a one byte pseudo header of which the MS bit indicates
> the direction the next three bits are reserved and must be set to zero
> in writing the last nibble is used to indicate the standard used for
> mtp3 packets transported (0000=itu, 0001=ansi, 0010=japan, 0011=china,
> other values are reserved for future extensions), readers must ignore
> the contents of the three reserved bits.
>
>
> DLT_MTP3_MULTISTANDARD
> that will have a one byte pseudo header of which the MS nibble is
> reserved and must be set to zero in writing the last two are used to
> indicate the standard used for mtp3 packets transported (0000=itu,
> 0001=ansi, 0010=japan, 0011=china, other values are reserved for
> future extensions), readers must ignore the contents of the reserved
> bits.

Is a capture likely to have a mix of packets for different MTP3  
standards?  And are there likely to be more types in the future?

If not, should we just have multiple DLT_MTP2_ and DLT_MTP3_ values?
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