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Re: output style question
From: Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:25:10 -0400
"Rick" == Rick Jones <rick.jones2 () hp com> writes:
Rick> I have an output style question before I continue hacking at Rick> print-sflow.c. Some of the fields in the PDUs are encoded - Rick> the top two bits are a format which change the meaning of the Rick> remaining 30 bits. my question is whether the printing should Rick> simply emit the format and the value as separate items, or Rick> change the "description" text based on the format. For Rick> example, sflowtool from inmon does the latter mostly but also Rick> a bit of the former: I prefer to have the format, and then the decode of the remaining 30 bits. I like if it says, "dropCode(1)" as the description :-) I don't know sflow well enough, but typical users of tcpdump are: a) a developer of a interoperable system trying to figure out what some closed source device is trying to say. b) a network engineer/expert who is trying to report a bug to vendor A, because vendor A and B do not interoperate, and they believe it is vendor A that got it wrong. -- ] He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life! | firewalls [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON |net architect[ ] mcr () sandelman ottawa on ca http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device driver[ Kyoto Plus: watch the video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzx1ycLXQSE> then sign the petition. - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
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