Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] The If_fcslen option unit mismatch

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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2023 10:49:40 +0100
Hi,

There’s a recent issue raised on a mismatch between the pcapng spec and Wireshark interpretation of it. The issue revolves around the unit used for the If_fcslen option in the pcapng file format.
The Wireshark issue is here: https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/19174
Apparently this was already identified in 2019, by Guy in the pcapng specification.
The pcapng issue is here: https://github.com/IETF-OPSAWG-WG/draft-ietf-opsawg-pcap/issues/60
However, this was never resolved, as in, a conclusion was never reached.
How should we progress with this, now that it has become a noticed problem? Guy, do you have additional insights since the initial report from 2019?

Thanks,
Jaap