Re: question on DLT_ types

[Hannes Gredler <hannes () juniper net>]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 02:00:44PM -0600, alex medvedev wrote:
| hi,
| 
| how do the DLT_ types get assigned?

post your request to the list ...
first come first serve ....
once its in the code it is assigned

| is there some "central authority" that does it?

no

| or are they arbitrarily assigned and therefore different between
| platforms (e.g. AIX with its IFT_ types).

new DLT_s should be consistent across platform; some
legacy DLTs are afaik in the wild as everybody allocated
wildly DLTs and did not report back their usage

/hannes
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