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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Custom MAC layer dissector

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:57:17 -0700

On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:47 AM, Patrick Lannigan wrote:

The dissector I'm writing is a custom link layer protocol.

By "link layer", do you mean it doesn't (necessarily) run on top of any other protocol, i.e. similar to Ethernet, 802.11, etc.?

If so, what type of capture file will packets of that link-layer type be in?