On Sep 2, 2011, at 12:53 AM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> 
wrote:

>>> uiTransparent:
>>> 0: normal Ethernet mode
>>> 1: transparent capture mode
>> 
>> Is there any difference between the packets in those two modes?
> 
> Yes, this will include the preamble/SFD as supplied by the Ethernet-PHY.
> This is used as low-level analysis expert mode.
> 
> pcaprec_hdr_t:
>    ts_sec
>    ts_usec
>    incl_len
>    orig_len
> packet_data:
>    preamble
>    SFD
>    dst_mac
>    src_mac
>    len_type
>    fcs
>  NETANA_HEADER_T

Will there ever be both "normal mode" and "transparent mode" packets in the 
same capture file?  If not, perhaps transparent mode should have its own 
link-layer type value.
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