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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Adding name resolution blocks in Wireshark

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:20:08 -0800
On Feb 8, 2012, at 8:05 AM, Anders Broman wrote:

> Should it be safeguarded with a preference?

No.  Older versions of Wireshark will ignore name resolution blocks, as does libpcap and hence all programs using libpcap to read pcap-ng files.