BTW, I think you should propose these as new IDB options on the
pcapng-format mailing list. They're obviously generally useful things
to have in the file, no matter how wiretap is implemented.
-hadriel
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> We might also have to add new options to the IDB to handle:
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> interfaces having separate "friendly name" and "description" strings (which we should do *anyway*), the "friendly name" being a description of what the interface is from the user's point of view and the "description" being a description of the hardware (or, for non-hardware interfaces, software) corresponding to the interface;
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> the MTU of the interface;
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> a GUID for the interface (at least on Windows; it'd be nice if every OS generated an unchanging GUID for each interface, as I'm sure Jasper Bongertz would agree, but they don't);
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> gateway, DHCP server, and DNS server IPv4 and IPv6 addresses;