[tcpdump-workers] New magic number

2004-08-12 Thread Francisco Mesquita
Hello,   I hope I’m making this request at the right place, if not please let me know.   I’m working in my graduation project with libpcap, and I want to add some information to the dump file, namely the address and netmask of the probe, start and end time of the capture and received an

Re: [tcpdump-workers] advice for heavy traffic capturing

2004-08-12 Thread Motonori Shindo
All, I do appreciate everybody who participated in such a meaningful discussion so far. That was far more than I had expected initially (well, I have to admit that my original question was somewhat vague to be honest:-)). I will try to collect a hardware (NIC, bus, etc.) and software (operating sy

Re: [tcpdump-workers] New magic number

2004-08-12 Thread Guy Harris
On Aug 12, 2004, at 2:10 AM, Francisco Mesquita wrote: Can you please assign me a new magic number so this format will be recognized by libpcap? Merely assigning a new magic number doesn't mean it'll be recognized by libpcap - we'd have to modify libpcap to handle that, which means that current