Re: v4/v6 packet length printing inconsistency

[Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info>]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:47:16 +0200
Gert Doering <gert () greenie muc de> wrote:

> So - if I were to send a patch to change IPv6 printing to be similar 
> to IPv4 (dual-line, and overall packet length) would this be something
> you are interested in?  Or is someone already working on it, per
> chance?

Hello Gert.

The inconsistency regarding the number of lines is the motivation
behind [1], but that inconsistency on its own did not seem a good reason
to make the change.  The inconsistency regarding the packet length
provides an additional reason to make it uniform, and now would be a
good time to make this change in the master branch only, then it would
appear in tcpdump 5.0 and it would be understandable that a major
release changes something in a way that is not backward-compatible.  If
you prepare a pull request, please include a useful entry in the change
log.

1: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/810

-- 
    Denis Ovsienko
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