Howdy,

I hope I'm doing this right.  I used the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
address rather than yours.



>From: Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Don Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] libpcap support of IP over FC
>
>On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:38:36PM -0600, Don Lee wrote:
>> I'm hacking IP over Fibre Channel into ethereal, and hence
>> need to tweak libpcap.  I need a number for the DLT_ type.
>> (for the return from pcap_datalink() )
>> Do you guys have a number already in mind?
>
>Nope.  I can assign you one, however (I'd have to do it at home, as I'm
>not set up to check in updates to bpf.h at work).
>
>I assume the captures will include Fibre Channel headers, rather than
>each packet starting with an IP header (if the captures only include IP
>headers, you'd use DLT_RAW).

Thanks.

Yes.  The packets will include the FC header.  DLT_RAW won't fly.

>> Prior work/art?
>
>None that I know of.  Altavista found nothing with a search for
>
>       libpcap NEAR "fibre channel"
>
>and Google, alas, has no NEAR operator, so the best you can do is
>
>       libpcap "fibre channel"
>
>which has a ton of false hits on pages that mention both libpcap and
>Fibre Channel but not in the same context.

However, you *have* to admit that the net is absolutely magnificent
compared to what we had 20 years ago. ;=>

-dgl-


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