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Additional Snoop Datalink Types

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Network Working Group                                          K. Sarcar
Request for Comments: 3827                        Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Category: Informational                                        June 2004


                    Additional Snoop Datalink Types

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004).

Abstract

   The snoop file format provides a way to store and exchange datalink
   layer packet traces.  This document describes extensions to this file
   format to support new media.

1.  Introduction

   [RFC 1761] defines the snoop file format used to store captured
   network packets for tools that capture, display, and interpret
   network traffic.  The file format specifies a header containing the
   Datalink Type field that identifies the network's datalink type.
   This document defines new values for this field, as well as an IANA
   registry for future datalink types.

2.  New Datalink Types

   In addition to the Datalink Type codes listed in [RFC 1761], this
   document defines the following type codes for the corresponding
   media:

             Datalink Type           Code
             -------------           ----

             Fibre Channel           16
             ATM                     17
             ATM Classical IP        18
             IP over Infiniband      26

   The IP over Infiniband packet format is described in [IPoIB].




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