Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] writing non-Ethernet pcapng files

From: Aaron Turner <synfinatic@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 11:44:18 -0700
I noticed that 1.0.x versions of wireshark don't support writing
non-Ethernet pcapng files.  However, other then explicitly forbidding
it in pcapng_dump_can_write_encap() in wiretap/pcapng.c I can't see
any reason for this- the link_type field seems to be correctly
read/written.

I commented out the check, and did a test (Cisco HDLC) and had no
problem reading a standard pcap file and converting it to pcapng.

Am I missing something?

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