Re: Request for new LINKTYPE/DLT ZBOSS_NCP

[Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info>
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> Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2022 22:19:44 +0000
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> On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 09:46:30 +0300
> Eugene Exarevsky via tcpdump-workers
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> > Hi all,
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> > Please, allocate a new LINKTYPE/DLT called ZBOSS_NCP.
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> > The background is following: we (DSR) are developing Zigbee protocol 
> > stack ZBOSS (
> > The stack has serial commands interface - NCP.
> > We implemented a dissector of that NCP protocol for Wireshark and
> > want to publish it. The idea is that we can display NCP commands and
> > Zigbee traffic between the stack and Zigbee transceiver in the same
> > log. But, indeed, NCP serial protocol is not related to 802.15.4
> > itself, so it will be wrong to base NCP parser on 803.15.4 protocol
> > parser in Wireshark.
> > We suppose separate PCAP DLT/WTAP_ENCAP  will be the best choice.
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> As a follow-up, this request did not go well.  It was merged before it
> was fully reviewed, subsequent points were not addressed and the
> requester seems to be out of contact.
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> It is difficult to see how the header type can be useful if it is not
> sufficiently well defined, so I am going to revert the changes made in
> libpcap pull request 1061 and tcpdump-htdocs pull request 25, unless
> anyone can suggest a better way to resolve this.
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>     Denis Ovsienko
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