Re: gsmtap design/extensions?

Guy Harris <guy-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/[email protected]> Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:36:39 -0700
Newsgroups org.netbsd.radiotap,org.kernel.vger.linux-wireless,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Apr 12, 2019, at 11:41 PM, Harald Welte <[email protected]> wrote:

> But that of course doesn't prevent new users from using different
> transport mechanisms of getting GSMTAP from e.g. the kernel into
> userspace.

Nor does it prevent libpcap (once I generalize the remote-capture =
mechanism) from supporting gsmtap://{host}[:port] (port optional) URLs =
that cause it to set up a UDP ({PF_INET or PF_INET6}, SOCK_DGRAM, =
IPPROTO_UDP) socket on which to receive UDP packets from the specified =
host (at the specified port or, if no port is specified, the default =
GSMTAP socket) and supplying packets that begin with a GSMTAP header, =
with a new linktype of LINKTYPE_GSMTAP/DLT_GSMTAP.=