Re: Request for new DLT and LINKTYPE value

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

On Apr 12, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Edgar, Thomas wrote:

> I am posting to request a value for DLT_SERIAL and LINKTYPE_SERIAL for use with libpcap.  I am working on a project 
> to update libpcap and Wireshark to capture and parse RS232 and RS485 traffic (written such that it could handle a 
> wide range of serial protocols but targeted toward a specific application).

What form of packet framing are you doing?  Neither libpcap nor tcpdump nor Wireshark nor... can handle a stream of 
bytes not ultimately broken up into packets of some sort.

The framing could be as simple as just dropping packet boundaries in at arbitrary points.
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