Re: New DLT_ type request

[Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net>
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> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 10:22:57 -0800
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> On Jan 5, 2022, at 6:53 PM, Timotej Ecimovic <timotej.ecimovic () silabs com> wrote:
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> > No. Like the document describes: tooling that deals with deframing is expected to remove the starting `[`, the ending 
> > `]` and the 2 byte length right after the `[`.
> > In case of creating a PCAPNG file out of this stream, the payload of the packet blocks will NOT contain the framing. 
> > So the "packet" starts with the debug message.
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> I.e., in LINKTYPE_SILABS_DEBUG_CHANNEL files, the packet doesn't include the '[', the length value, or the ']'?
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> > > What do the bits in the "Flags" field of the 3.0 debug message mean?  Does "few bytes of future-proofing flags" mean 
> > > that there are currently no flag bits defined, so that the field should always be zero, but there might be flag bits 
> > > defined in the future?
> > They mean. "Reserved for future use". The value currently can be arbitrary and until someone defines values for them, 
> > they have no meaning. I'll make this more specific in the doc.
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> So is there something in the debug message to indicate whether the field has no meaning and should be ignored, or has a 
> meaning and should be interpreted?
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