Re: Request for new LINKTYPE/DLT ZBOSS_NCP

[Eugene Exarevsky via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Eugene Exarevsky <eugene.exarevsky () dsr-corporation com>
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> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 10:25:27 +0300
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> Hi!
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> Sorry for the late replay. There were holidays in Russia, so I was out 
> of Internet connection.
> Could you define what must be described to define the header type well?
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> On 1/10/2022 1:19 AM, Denis Ovsienko wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 09:46:30 +0300
> > Eugene Exarevsky via tcpdump-workers
> > <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>  wrote:
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> > > Hi all,
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> > > Please, allocate a new LINKTYPE/DLT called ZBOSS_NCP.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > 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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> Eugene
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