Re: proposed new pcap format

[Hannes Gredler <hannes () juniper net>]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 09:25:43AM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
| On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Darren Reed wrote:
| 
| > >   okay, divide the 32-bit space into two 16-bit spaces.
| > >   vendor 0 will be reserved.
| > >   tcpdump.org will be vendor 1.
| > > 
| > >   vendor 0xffff will be reserved (for the NSA).
| > 
| > Why not make both 32bit ?
| > 
| > I say that because design requirements are different, today, than they
| > were 15 years ago.
| 
| I tend to agree with that. 16 bits seems awefully small for a vendor id 
| these days.

i concur - also we have a printer in oui.c that takes 32-bit
integers as input ....

/hannes
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