On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:57:53 -0500 Michael Richardson <m...@sandelman.ca> wrote:
> > It does momentarily seem wasteful to repeat the > > source/destination information in every single packet > > (especially in the case of IPv6 with its 256bits of addressing > > information). Though I don't know if that outweighs the > > statefulness and added complexity of representing "flow setup" > > operations and "more bytes of data sent/received on this flow" > > as extra frame types. > > Eventually, we'll be using this format to debug multi-path TCP, in > which case the IP addresses (and maybe even the IP4/IP6-ness of it) > might change. > > And gzip'ed those addresses will compress quite easily. OK, so I'll stick with the simplicity of just repeating it for every frame then. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
