Re: I Need to register some DLTs

["Luis EG Ontanon" <luis.ontanon () gmail com>]

On 9/19/07, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
> On Aug 24, 2007, at 2:33 PM, Luis EG Ontanon wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I Need to register two DLTs they would be:
> >
> > DLT_MTP2_MULTISTANDARD
> > [snip]
> > DLT_MTP3_MULTISTANDARD
> > [snip]
>
> 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. I'm on my way  to add multistandard mtp support
to Wireshark (in weeks, not days) so I guess I better wait (and use
USERx_DLTs fo the time being) to see how this is better handled with a
working tool.

Luis

-- 
This information is top security. When you have read it, destroy yourself.
-- Marshall McLuhan
-
This is the tcpdump-workers list.
Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.