Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Custom link layer type for logging additional data
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 23:37:56 -0800
On Nov 26, 2014, at 11:34 PM, Anil <anilkumar911@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply. I will follow the procedure when I have to checkin the code (I have not done that as of now).
> 
> My question is more about, 'is it right to use another link type to log additional information about the packet ?' . The additional information is not 'really'  another link layer header.

There are plenty of "link-layer header types" that include information that's not part of a link-layer header; see, for example, LINKTYPE_IEEE802_11_RADIOTAP, which precedes the 802.11 link-layer header with a metadata header containing radio information:
	
	http://www.radiotap.org/