Re: "final" radiotap patch for tcpdump

[Bruce M Simpson <bms () spc org>]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 05:32:12PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > Looks good to me, at least for the top-of-tree (where we require that
> > the platform support 64-bit integers, and where we define u_int64_t to
> > be an unsigned 64-bit integer type).

It would be nice if we could get this committed and rolled into the next
tcpdump point release. Currently I'm carrying around a diff in the FreeBSD
ports repo for radiotap support and it would be good to be back in line
with mainline tcpdump/libpcap again.

> Is the cpack.c stuff useful, or potentially useful, for anything other
> than the radiotap stuff?

My memory is hazy here, but I think that either sam@ or fenner@ said to me
months ago that there was a diff ready to roll which reimplemented the
cpack stuff in terms of EXTRACT*(), but that it was lost in a disk crash...

BMS
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