Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] New protocol or subtree?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 15:01:34 -0700 (PDT)
> I am working on adapting some tcpdump patches for Transarc RX protocol
> support to ethereal.
> 
> RX is the lower level protocol. The data portion of it's packets are
> processed differently according to the different services it is talking to.

This is, surprise surprise, somewhat like ONC RPC, wherein there's the
ONC RPC protocol, and various protocols (portmapper/rpcbind, NFS, NLM,
NSM, NIS, NIS+, etc.) built atop it.  (I have the impression RX was
created as an RPC layer atop which to put AFS.)

Given that, I'd be inclined to have RX as one protocol, and either
have AFS as another protocol, or have AFS File Server, AFS Callback,
etc. as other protocols, rather than having the AFS stuff under the RX
protocol tree.