Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> It would be reasonable to anticipate additional characteristics that
>> could make their way into a capture file for received traffic, such as
>> RSSI and noise levels, antenna selection, etc. For the requested link
>> types, the packet will start with the MAC Layer data (the 4-byte
>> HomeID comes first), including an FCS, with no additional data. For
>> captures that require RSSI or additional metadata to be associated
>> with the packet, RadioTap or PPI could be used similar to what is
>> already done for Bluetooth Low Energy and other wireless protocols.
> So presumably new LINKTYPE_/DLT_ values will be requested for the
> captures with metadata, once the format for the metadata is specified?
(and maybe we'll get to pcapng as default before then...)
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