Re: Wiretap changes for pcapng

[Hadriel Kaplan <the.real.hadriel () gmail com>]

BTW, I think you should propose these as new IDB options on the
pcapng-format mailing list.  They're obviously generally useful things
to have in the file, no matter how wiretap is implemented.

-hadriel


On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
> We might also have to add new options to the IDB to handle:
>
>         interfaces having separate "friendly name" and "description" strings (which we should do *anyway*), the 
> "friendly name" being a description of what the interface is from the user's point of view and the "description" 
> being a description of the hardware (or, for non-hardware interfaces, software) corresponding to the interface;
>
>         the MTU of the interface;
>
>         a GUID for the interface (at least on Windows; it'd be nice if every OS generated an unchanging GUID for each 
> interface, as I'm sure Jasper Bongertz would agree, but they don't);
>
>         gateway, DHCP server, and DNS server IPv4 and IPv6 addresses;
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