Re: proposed new pcap format

[Richard Sharpe <rsharpe () richardsharpe com>]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Mar 25, 2004, at 9:31 AM, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>
> > One of the items I would like support for in a new format is comments.
> > That is, the ability to add textual comments to frames. These comments
> > would be ignored by tools that do not understand them, but they would 
> > be
> > displayed by tools capable of understanding them.
>
> Would all comments necessarily be associated with frames?
>
> One counter-example would be a comment associated with the capture as a 
> whole (I think the old DOS Sniffer format supported that).

Hmmm, that is a good point ...

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com

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