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Thank you for explaining in such a great detail.
> It's about either 1) saying "slicing is forbidden" or 2) saying "here's how
> you do slicing".
I would rather not introduce the limitation if not really necessary. The way
you described earlier made sense to me so I am fine with that.
> Perhaps that's an indication that Wireshark needs to do a better job of
> distinguishing between metadata headers and packet data, then.
> (I already think so, as 1) counting metadata headers as data means, for
> example, that you get bogus bytes/second values and 2) separating
> them may make it more straightforward to implement transformation from, for
> example,
This sounds like a good approach to the problem.
> I'm not sure there *are* any currently cases where a given LINKTYPE_ value
> specifies a metadata trailer.
So to me it seems there is currently no mechanism relying on the meta data to
be in form of a header. I would like to go on with the footer structure if you
are OK with that.
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