On 4/24/14 16:30 , "Guy Harris" <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>
>On Apr 24, 2014, at 6:31 AM, Philip Rosenberg-Watt
><p.rosenberg-w...@cablelabs.com> wrote:
>
>> Then how are we to determine if the capture is 1G or 10G mode? Do we
>> simply exclude the possibility of XXXXXX being 010101 for the MPCP LSB?
>>Or
>> are we back to a preference, but to select 1G vs 10G mode? Or maybe a
>> LINKTYPE_EPON_10G?
>
>Given that the downstream encryption mechanisms are different for 1G and
>10G, and given that the sniffing hardware presumably knows whether it's
>sniffing 1G or 10G, I'd vote for LINKTYPE_EPON_1G and LINKTYPE_EPON_10G,
>with the differences being in the parsing of the octet in question and in
>the decryption of downstream traffic if the program reading the file
>supports that.

Take a look at this and tell me what you think:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10G-EPON#Backward_compatibility
I'm not sure my original assumption was correct: that 1G and 10G were
mutually exclusive.

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