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Diffstat (limited to 'wiretap')
| -rw-r--r-- | wiretap/ngsniffer.c | 34 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/wiretap/ngsniffer.c b/wiretap/ngsniffer.c index ba2e8bfbe5..c8b542b329 100644 --- a/wiretap/ngsniffer.c +++ b/wiretap/ngsniffer.c @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ /* ngsniffer.c * - * $Id: ngsniffer.c,v 1.92 2002/12/20 05:40:52 sharpe Exp $ + * $Id: ngsniffer.c,v 1.93 2002/12/20 21:23:02 guy Exp $ * * Wiretap Library * Copyright (c) 1998 by Gilbert Ramirez <gram@alumni.rice.edu> @@ -282,18 +282,32 @@ struct frame6_rec { * (sub)type is hidden. * * The semantics of these network types is inferred from the Sniffer - * documentation, as they correspond to types described in the UI. + * documentation, as they correspond to types described in the UI; + * in particular, see + * + * http://download.nai.com/products/media/sniffer/support/sdos/operation.pdf + * + * starting at page 3-10 (56 of 496). */ -#define NET_SDLC 0 -#define NET_HDLC 1 /* Used for X.25, among other things */ +#define NET_SDLC 0 /* Probably "SDLC then SNA" */ +#define NET_HDLC 1 /* Used for X.25; is it used for other + things as well, or is it "HDLC then + X.25", as referred to by the document + cited above, and only used for X.25? */ #define NET_FRAME_RELAY 2 -#define NET_ROUTER 3 /* various point-to-point protocols - for use between bridges and routers, - including PPP as well as various - proprietary protocols; also used for - ISDN */ +#define NET_ROUTER 3 /* Probably "Router/Bridge", for various + point-to-point protocols for use between + bridges and routers, including PPP as well + as various proprietary protocols; also + used for ISDN, for reasons not obvious + to me, given that a Sniffer knows + whether it's using a WAN or an ISDN pod */ #define NET_PPP 4 /* "Asynchronous", which includes SLIP too */ -#define NET_SMDS 5 +#define NET_SMDS 5 /* Not mentioned in the document, but + that's a document for version 5.50 of + the Sniffer, and that version might use + version 5 in the file format and thus + might not be using type 7 records */ /* values for V.timeunit */ #define NUM_NGSNIFF_TIMEUNITS 7 |