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Bug #6954

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eve: packet field packet_info.linktype is non-portable

Added by Victor Julien 17 days ago. Updated 4 days ago.

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In Review
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Jeff Lucovsky
Target version:
TBD
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Description

This field holds a numeric representation of the linktype/datalink, but this number can differ between operating systems. Most notably DLT_RAW is has value 12 on linux and 14 on OpenBSD.

It would probably be best to use a string representation. Following capinfos might make sense:

File encapsulation:  Raw IP

Interface #0 info:
                     Encapsulation = Raw IP (7 - rawip)

Could do "Raw IP" or follow the "rawip" notation.

Regardless this should be in a new field.

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 #1

Updated by Jeff Lucovsky 7 days ago

A simple solution would use the interface pcap_datalink_val_to_name to get the display name for the datalink value.

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 #2

Updated by Jeff Lucovsky 4 days ago

  • Status changed from New to In Review
  • Assignee changed from OISF Dev to Jeff Lucovsky
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