> On 30 Jun 2017, at 03:21, Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: >> Although the format is slightly different (hence the internal stuff). > > If the capture program and dissector are solely for the use of Schneider and, > possibly, its customers, and the dissector won't be open-source (which means > "not a Wireshark dissector", given that Wireshark plugins have to be GPLed, > unless the dissector is solely for use within Schneider), then a > LINKTYPE_n/DLT_USERn value would be best. I don't want to assign > LINKTYPE_/DLT_ values to formats for which there isn't sufficient > documentation for somebody to write code to parse the format (neither a > tcpdump nor a Wireshark dissector counts as "documentation"). > > If the dissector will be open-source, then there's no reason not to have a > publicly-available specification for the message format.
OK fair enough. I am hoping to be able to make it more open but other people seem unreasonably paranoid about it so I'm not holding my breath :-/ -- Daniel O'Connor Senior Firmware Developer Smart Devices Asia Pacific M 0403070726 Building & IT Business E Daniel.O'con...@schneider-electric.com 33-37 Port Wakefield Road Gepps Cross, SA, Australia _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
