Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] More information about each packet traced?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 10:44:28 -0700
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 03:30:52AM +0930, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> This is something I suggested a while ago, but in a different guise. My 
> suggestion was adding a test/description field to the packet formats, but 
> this sounds better. Just add a DLT type that is for a comment/description!

Unfortunately, DLT_ types are in the libpcap file header, not the packet
header, so such a DLT_ type would be useful only for captures that
consisted solely of comments.