Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Feature request: inserting comments

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:09:22 -0700
Ph. Marek wrote:

- Perhaps these comments should be written into the capture file as a special packet (some new protocol, perhaps?) with a fixed maximum size

The "next-generation" libpcap format already has provisions for adding comments to records in the file, including records for packets.