Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Need an extra bit in the packet-header struct.

[Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have need for an extra bit in the header for each packet.
This is to tell me whether the packet was received or transmitted
on this interface.

Since the length fields are 32-bit, and there is no 4GB packet to be
had, I was thinking I could just use the high-bit there.

Any chance the powers that be could mark the high bit (or maybe several
of the high bits) as 'used-by-third-party-hacks' and have ethereal
just mask out the high bit(s) when calculating the length?

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com