[pcap-ng-format] Issue #26: is extra padding legal?

Hadriel Kaplan the.real.hadriel at gmail.com
Wed Aug 26 17:43:37 UTC 2015


Is it legal to use more than 4 bytes of padding?

For example: if the file has a SPB, with an original packet length of
1000 but an IDB snaplen of 120, and the SPB's Block Length is 144 (=12
bytes Block headers + 4 bytes SPB packet length, leaving 128 bytes of
packet data)... is that valid?

-hadriel


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