Re: Does Wireshark maintain the Per-Packet Information (PPI) Header Specification ??

[Dave Stephenson <daves () ruckuswireless com>]

Thanks, Guy!
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On 3/3/15, 9:57 PM, "Guy Harris" <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Mar 3, 2015, at 5:49 PM, Dave Stephenson <daves () ruckuswireless com>
> wrote:
>
> > I posted the email below to the winpcap-users list mid-Feburary and
> > have not received any response.  Am wondering if winpcap¹s PPI
> > specification
>
> It's not WinPcap's specification; it happens to have been developed by
> the people at CACE Technologies, which was founded by some of the people
> who developed WinPcap, but there's nothing WinPcap-specific about it.
>
> > has been take over by Wireshark community?
>
> It hasn't.
>
> Personally, I look forward to radiotap:
>
>       http://www.radiotap.org/
>
> being capable of providing all the 802.11 metadata that PPI can (if it
> can't already do so), and to having the time to add full pcap-ng support
> to libpcap and tcpdump so that there's no need to use PPI in order to
> encapsulate multiple types of network traffic in a single file or to
> represent any 802.11 metadata, and thus to PPI no longer having any
> capabilities that aren't offered by radiotap+pcap-ng or, for captures
> that don't need multiple link-layer types, offered by radiotap, so that
> nobody needs to use PPI.
>
> If you're trying to provide metadata in 802.11 captures, you might want
> to pursue adding the capability to radiotap, instead.  Radiotap's being
> developed a bit more actively than PPI, and has a bit more of an open
> development process (an open mailing list and a website), although the
> last message I received on the list was from last November.
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