Re: request for a DLT value for wireshark DVB-CI

[Martin Kaiser <lists () kaiser cx>]

Hello Guy,

Thus wrote Guy Harris (guy () alum mit edu):

> On Feb 27, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Guy Harris wrote:

> > Yes, it does, thanks.  Should I just cite that page as a reference
> > in the comment I put into pcap/bpf.h for the DLT value?-

yes, please refer to that page. I'll keep it up to date.

> And I *especially* thank you for giving such a detailed specification!
> Detailed specifications such as that

>       1) make it easier to write code to analyze packets for a given
>       link-layer type;

>       2) make it easier to verify that code and make changes to it;

>       3) make it harder for somebody to mistakenly generate incorrect
>       packets in that format (and then plead for heuristics in code that
>       reads packets in that format to detect their incorrect packets and
>       handle them).

There's good documentation and examples (like radiotap) to push people
in the right direction, this helps a lot.

Best regards,

   Martin
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