On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Darren Reed wrote: > > okay, divide the 32-bit space into two 16-bit spaces. > > vendor 0 will be reserved. > > tcpdump.org will be vendor 1. > > > > vendor 0xffff will be reserved (for the NSA). > > Why not make both 32bit ? > > I say that because design requirements are different, today, than they > were 15 years ago.
I tend to agree with that. 16 bits seems awefully small for a vendor id these days. Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com - This is the TCPDUMP workers list. It is archived at http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/index.html To unsubscribe use mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]