Adding support for LINKTYPE_PPP_ETHER/DLT_PPP_ETHER?

[Reinhard Speyerer <rspmn () arcor de>]

Hi,

I recently noticed that Wireshark does not seem to support pcap files
with DLT 51 (LINKTYPE_PPP_ETHER/DLT_PPP_ETHER) which is used by the
in-kernel PPPoE implementation (pppoe(4)) in NetBSD and OpenBSD:

$ tshark -r pppoe0-sample-2.pcap # TShark 1.6.5
...
tshark: The file "pppoe0-sample-2.pcap" is a capture for a network type that TShark doesn't support.
(pcap: network type 51 unknown or unsupported)

> From looking at the format Wireshark should be able to handle this
DLT using the existing pppoes dissector.

Please advise whether I should add a corresponding enhancement request
for Wireshark. So far nobody else seems to have missed it and pppoepcap2pcap
works sufficiently well for me.

Regards,
Reinhard

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