Hello,

 

My company builds hardware based network analyzers and we are going to
capture 1G/10G line rate and store in native pcap format.

 

If possible, it would be beneficial for us to store some extra
information in the packet headers that is unique to our ability to use
custom NIC hardware (FCS errors, collisions, etc..).

 

I looked at the PCAP format and am thinking there are no spare bits /
fields to accomplish this.  We do plan to enable nsec timestamp option.

 

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to store additional information in
the pcap file (per packet) that would not cause problems for normal
Wireshark decoding?

 

Thanks,

Barry

 

 

Principal Member of Technical Staff

 

JDSU Communication Test (formerly Acterna)

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