Re: text format stability

[Jefferson Ogata <Jefferson.Ogata () noaa gov>]

Eddie Kohler wrote:
> It would seem to me that the best approach here would be to design a new 
> format that applied *only in those cases where it was required*: 
> gre/l2tp/mpls tunneling.  And of course it doesn't matter how new 
> protocols are printed, there are no backwards compatibility issues.

It would seem to me that the best approach would be to have a format 
configuration file when an entry for each dissected protocol. Local 
installations could tweak it however they like.

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Jefferson Ogata <Jefferson.Ogata () noaa gov>
NOAA Computer Incident Response Team (N-CIRT) <ncirt () noaa gov>

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