Re: I Need to register some DLTs

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Sep 19, 2007, at 1:33 AM, Luis EG Ontanon wrote:

> On 9/19/07, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
>
> > Is a capture likely to have a mix of packets for different MTP3
> > standards?  And are there likely to be more types in the future?
>
> I got few text dumps containing a mix of china and itu MTP3 headers,
> other than that I've seen international exchange traces using more
> than one standard
>
> > If not, should we just have multiple DLT_MTP2_ and DLT_MTP3_ values?
>
> That might be the way.

...although, if a trace can have a mix of packets with different  
standards, presumably we'd need the DLT_MTP2_MULTISTANDARD and  
DLT_MTP3_MULTISTANDARD values, rather than just having different DLT_  
values for different standards.
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