[Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 6:36 pm, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> [snip]
> A packet is a group of bits of data.  A frame is a place to put a packet.
> You can't store a frame -- it is mainly of interest to low level network
> hardware.  A frame is typically an interval of time.  Sometimes, it is the
> equivalent region along the length of a wire.

So Ethereal should use "packet" since it is storing the data, so by definition 
it is not a frame.

> [snip]
> But I also agree that when "frame" is the well-known term for something
> else in a particular protocol, ethereal should use it that way.

But we don't have the discrimination to change terminology on a protocol by 
protocol basis.

-- 
Richard Urwin