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On Jul 10, 2018, at 9:34 AM, Petr Vorel <pvo...@suse.cz> wrote: > I'm playing with implementing LINKTYPE_LINUX_SLL2 [1] as a part of [3] > in libpcap and using it in tcpdump. This requires a numerical value to be assigned to LINKTYPE_LINUX_SLL2 and DLT_LINUX_SLL2; no such value has yet been assigned. > 1) Keeping LINKTYPE_LINUX_SLL [2] altogether with LINKTYPE_LINUX_SLL2, compile > both (having one of them as default for linux, second allow to use with -y > switch > in tcpdump). > 2) Keeping LINKTYPE_LINUX_SLL [2] altogether with LINKTYPE_LINUX_SLL2 but > compile only one of them (allow to chose via --with-pcap). > 3) Replace LINKTYPE_LINUX_SLL with LINKTYPE_LINUX_SLL2. > > I've got somehow working 3), but some tcpdump tests are failing and I guess > that's not what would be accepted due backwards compatibility. > I guess 1) is what is wanted, Yes. It allows somebody to produce a capture file that can be read by software that doesn't yet support SLL2. _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers