Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] Re: [ethereal-cvs] cvs commit: ethereal Makefile.am file.c file.h

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From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 14:05:12 +0900
At 21:04 1/08/99 -0500, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  ).  Note: as I remember, IEEE 802.2/ISO 8022 LLC has somewhat of an SDLC
>  flavor to it, just as I think LAP, LAPB, LAPD, and so on do, so we may
>  be able to combine some of the LLC dissection and the LAPB dissection
>  into common code that could, conceivably be used for other SDLC-flavored
>  protocols.

Indeed. Some people say that the only difference between SDLC and HDLC
(which is where LAP and LAPB came from) is that one starts with S and the
other starts with H :-)

It would be good to be able to handle Frame Relay as well, which has a very
simple structure that is similar in some respects to LAPB etc.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx, NS Computer Software and Services P/L,
Samba (Team member www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours