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Subject: Re: Fixes for tcpdump with LPIP encapsulation 
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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 22:18:04 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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>I fixed the problem with the link layer type by defining a *new* link
>layer type (DLT_LPIP). This seems to me to be the cleanest solution
>(alternatives: remove the two byte header and use DLT_RAW, or expand it
>to four bytes, and use DLT_NULL). Unfortunately it's also the solution
>which touches the most files (changes needed for libpcap and tcpdump).
>Thus I'd like to have some comments from the good people on -current on
>whether this is the correct way of solving the problem, before I feed
>the changes back to the tcpdump/libpcap maintainers.

I think using DLT_NULL or DLT_RAW is preferable.  Changing tcpdump and
libpcap for the sake of LPIP really seems like overdoing it to me...

Thanks for the attention to this neglegted child of mine...

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!"

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