* Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org> [2017-05-30 10:56]:
> > How about just dropping support for /etc/appletalk.names, which as far
> > as I can tell was never used, and drop the manpage bit, reducing it by
> > 10%. Most of the text in the manpage is outdated anyway, talking about
> > /etc/atalk.names - support for which was removed in 2004 with the
> > privsep work. Something like this:
> 
> Sure sure.
> 
> My main objection to full removal was that you see a numbered packet
> flying over your network and don't know what catagory it is in.
> Suddenly google search is neccessary because tcpdump is going out
> of the way to not help.  So it should help, answering the minimum
> question of "what type is that packet, should I worry".

agreed.
can we limit this to just being able to identify appletalk?

note that this is ethertype appletalk, not appletalk over ip. afaik
that means pre-macosx.

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