Re: C-Bus encapsulation type

["Daniel O'Connor" <Daniel.O'Connor () schneider-electric com>]

> On 30 Jun 2017, at 03:21, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
> > Although the format is slightly different (hence the internal stuff).
>
> If the capture program and dissector are solely for the use of Schneider and, possibly, its customers, and the 
> dissector won't be open-source (which means "not a Wireshark dissector", given that Wireshark plugins have to be 
> GPLed, unless the dissector is solely for use within Schneider), then a LINKTYPE_n/DLT_USERn value would be best.  I 
> don't want to assign LINKTYPE_/DLT_ values to formats for which there isn't sufficient documentation for somebody to 
> write code to parse the format (neither a tcpdump nor a Wireshark dissector counts as "documentation").
>
> If the dissector will be open-source, then there's no reason not to have a publicly-available specification for the 
> message format.

OK fair enough.

I am hoping to be able to make it more open but other people seem unreasonably paranoid about it so I'm not holding my 
breath :-/

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