Re: Request for a DLT value (for nflog)

[Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws () darkjames pl>]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:54:43PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> Are these structures likely to remain unchanged (other than new TLV types being added, 
> and perhaps some TLVs changing length in a backwards-compatible fashion), so that older 
> DLT_NFLOG captures won't be rendered unreadable by code that reads newer ones, or does 
> this run the risk of changing into a mess like DLT_PFLOG, where the format changes in 
> incompatible fashion, so that code that reads newer captures can't read older captures?-

In nfgenmsg there's version field, but I'm not in netfilter dev team,
and can't answer these questions.

If DLT_* registration process can be only done by someone who maintains
given protocol/interface than I'm not such person :)

Cheers,
 Jakub.
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