Re: Request for new DLT value for Wireshark Dissector

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Jan 17, 2011, at 5:52 AM, Schemmel, Hans-Christoph wrote:

> Concerning dissecting: The communication between GSM modem and the host is
> captured with an USB Tracer. The tracer uses a proprietary format for the trace
> files, but the data of these files can be exported, e.g. as csv file. I´ve
> written a parser to process the files and to write the data in a pcap file. In
> front of a captured multiplexer packet the parser writes an additional header of
> variable size. This header contains information about the frame direction and
> (optional) splitted packets inside of the multiplexer frames, e.g. splitted PPP
> packets in the payload. This information is needed to reassemble splitted
> packets in the dissector.

OK, so it sounds as if this isn't raw standard 27.010 traffic.  Is MUX27010 likely to be used as a name for that 
traffic?  If not, we could call it DLT_MUX27010/LINKTYPE_MUX27010.

What is the format of the additional header?-
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