Re: [tcpdump-workers] New RFCs for 1) pcap file format and 2) rpcapd protocol?

2020-04-01 Thread Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On Apr 1, 2020, at 11:51 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: > Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers wrote: >>> 5) Treat rpcap as "remote procedure call for libpcap" and put it under the the-tcpdump-group team, and put pcap under the pcapng team as per the same reason

Re: [tcpdump-workers] New RFCs for 1) pcap file format and 2) rpcapd protocol?

2020-03-31 Thread Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On Mar 22, 2020, at 11:40 AM, Francois-Xavier Le Bail wrote: > On 22/03/2020 18:29, Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers wrote: > >> 5) Treat rpcap as "remote procedure call for libpcap" and put it under the >> the-tcpdump-group team, and put pcap under the pcapng team as per

Re: [tcpdump-workers] New RFCs for 1) pcap file format and 2) rpcapd protocol?

2020-03-26 Thread Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On Mar 26, 2020, at 7:10 PM, Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers wrote: > (Note that its purpose is to document the *existing* format, rather than be a > source of proposed changes.) ...proposed changes to the format. I am, however, planning on proposing a mechanism for

Re: [tcpdump-workers] New RFCs for 1) pcap file format and 2) rpcapd protocol?

2020-03-26 Thread Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On Mar 22, 2020, at 10:29 AM, Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers wrote: > 5) ... and put pcap under the pcapng team as per the same reason as 4). Done. It's pointed to by https://github.com/pcapng/pcapng and the XML source is at

Re: [tcpdump-workers] New RFCs for 1) pcap file format and 2) rpcapd protocol?

2020-03-22 Thread Francois-Xavier Le Bail via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On 22/03/2020 18:29, Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers wrote: > 5) Treat rpcap as "remote procedure call for libpcap" and put it under the > the-tcpdump-group team, and put pcap under the pcapng team as per the same > reason as 4). Ok. --- End Message ---

Re: [tcpdump-workers] New RFCs for 1) pcap file format and 2) rpcapd protocol?

2020-03-22 Thread Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On Mar 21, 2020, at 2:38 PM, Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers wrote: > On Mar 21, 2020, at 2:14 PM, Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers > wrote: > >> The options I see are: > > 4) add a new team for rpcap, as it's a protocol rather than a file format, > and thus only

Re: [tcpdump-workers] New RFCs for 1) pcap file format and 2) rpcapd protocol?

2020-03-21 Thread Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On Mar 21, 2020, at 2:14 PM, Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers wrote: > The options I see are: 4) add a new team for rpcap, as it's a protocol rather than a file format, and thus only indirectly tied to pcap/pcapng, and putting the pcap format in the pcapng team because

Re: [tcpdump-workers] New RFCs for 1) pcap file format and 2) rpcapd protocol?

2020-03-21 Thread Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On Mar 21, 2020, at 2:31 PM, Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers wrote: > El sáb., 21 mar. 2020 18:15, Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers > escribió: > >> 1) has the slight disadvantage that the name for the team suggests it's >> for pcapng only; it appears that teams can be

Re: [tcpdump-workers] New RFCs for 1) pcap file format and 2) rpcapd protocol?

2020-03-21 Thread Mario Rugiero via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- El sáb., 21 mar. 2020 18:15, Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers < tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org> escribió: > 1) has the slight disadvantage that the name for the team suggests it's > for pcapng only; it appears that teams can be renamed: > > >

Re: [tcpdump-workers] New RFCs for 1) pcap file format and 2) rpcapd protocol?

2020-03-21 Thread Francois-Xavier Le Bail via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- On 21/03/2020 22:14, Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers wrote: > 1) has the slight disadvantage that the name for the team suggests it's for > pcapng only; it appears that teams can be renamed: > > >

[tcpdump-workers] New RFCs for 1) pcap file format and 2) rpcapd protocol?

2020-03-21 Thread Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers
--- Begin Message --- There should probably be RFC-style specifications for 1) the pcap file format and 2) the rpcapd protocol used for remote capturing. Currently, on GitHub, there's a "pcapng" team: https://github.com/pcapng with one repository containing the pcapng specification,