Re: [tcpdump-workers] PCAP-NG suggestion

2005-02-14 Thread Felipe Kellermann
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 5:29pm -0800, Guy Harris wrote: > It is? Not for me - I need an explanation > By "self-explanatory" I mean only the purpose of the feature -- not the definitions. That surely demands a lot more thought, opinions, etc. > > and in the old format it would be something l

Re: [tcpdump-workers] PCAP-NG suggestion

2005-02-14 Thread Guy Harris
On Feb 9, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Felipe Kellermann wrote: I've recently read the draft of the new file format -- very interesting. I'd like to raise a question here on a feature I've always thought would be useful: An offset, in addition to the snaplen. This feature is surely almost self-explanatory

Re: [tcpdump-workers] PCAP-NG suggestion

2005-02-14 Thread Felipe Kellermann
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 2:28pm -0800, Loris Degioanni wrote: > I think a block with data that starts at an arbitrary position of the packet > would be useful, but it would be impossible (or at least hard) for the typical > sniffer like Ethereal or tcpdump to dissect it. A possible solution could be >

Re: [tcpdump-workers] PCAP-NG suggestion

2005-02-14 Thread Felipe Kellermann
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:41pm +0100, Gianluca Varenni wrote: > I haven't yet thought if it would be better to add it as an option, or as a > field of the IDB. I think it would be better placed before the snaplen field in the IDB. The reason is that it would ease the decision of the parsers in fin

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2005-02-14 Thread hannes
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