On Sep 6, 2011, at 11:01 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> 
>> 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.
> 
> The two modes will never be mixed up in one file. Having a second
> link-layer type would be nice.

So the preamble is the 7 octets described in section 3.2.1 of IEEE 802.3-2008 
(0xAA 0xAA 0xAA 0xAA 0xAA 0xAA 0xAA, if the frame is valid), and the SFD is the 
octet described in section 3.2.2 (0xAB, if the frame is valid)?-
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