Hi.
I think this is a general requirement. We plan to insert a similar feature
(per-packet link types) in WinPcap as well.
Can we use a more general name (DLT_PER_PACKET ?), and can we decide
together how to encode the estra information into the file?
Cheers,
fulvio
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Gilbert Ramirez
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 20:38
> To: tcpdump
> Subject: [tcpdump-workers] Requesting new DLT value
>
>
> In my work for Cisco, I'm experimenting with adding packet capture
> facilities to IOS, at least for development and debugging purposes
> (i.e., I'm not saying that this will be in any future release of IOS).
>
> My code creates libpcap-style files. I need a new DLT value for
> the linktype, for 2 reasons. First, the packet I write to the file
> will contain some extra initial information which contains
> the true, per-packet link type. That is, like DTL_LINUX_SLL,
> I'll be adding some bytes in order to provide for per-packet
> link types instead of per-file link types. Secondly, the
> information added to the packet will contain some additional
> meta-data which is important to IOS developers.
>
> If possible, I'd like the name to be something like
> DLT_CISCO_IOS.
>
> thanks,
>
> --gilbert
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