I agree.
A different question though is why FT_UINT64 isn't in the same group as the other FT_UINT* ones. (And of course FT_INT64 in FT_INT*)
Also, what about FT_NONE? Lots of current duplicate fields have one of the duplicates as FT_NONE - why I don't know, but I don't think that breaks filtering input. (though I'm not positive about that)
-hadriel
On Feb 21, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Hadriel Kaplan <hadriel.kaplan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> So this then:
>> - FT_INT8, FT_INT16, FT_INT24 and FT_INT32
>> - FT_UINT8, FT_UINT16, FT_UINT24, FT_UINT32, FT_IPXNET and FT_FRAMENUM
>
> I'd be tempted to consider FT_IPXNET and FT_FRAMENUM to be *sui generis*; they might be displayed as unsigned integers, but, unlike FT_UINTn, where they're just unsigned integers of different sizes, FT_IPXNET is an IPX network number and FT_FRAMENUM is a frame number, so I'm not sure it makes sense to have, for example, a field that's sometimes an integer from the packet and sometimes a frame number.
>
>> - FT_UINT64 and FT_EUI64
>
> Same there - an EUI-64 is a specific type of value.
>
>> - FT_BYTES, FT_UINT_BYTES, FT_AX25, FT_ETHER, FT_VINES, FT_OID and FT_REL_OID
>
> And same here - I'd go for
>
> - FT_BYTES and FT_UINT_BYTES
> - FT_AX25 (this is an AX.25 address, and is unlikely to be anything else)
> - FT_ETHER (MAC-48, and unlikely to be anything else)
> - FT_VINES (Vines address)
> - FT_OID and FT_REL_OID (I'm guessing that a given OID could be represented either way; if not, maybe they should be separate)
>
>> - FT_ABSOLUTE_TIME and FT_RELATIVE_TIME
>
> Absolute times are time stamps; relative times are "n seconds from now"-type values. I'd split them as well.
>
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