EtherTalk (Appletalk over Ethernet) was removed in Mac OS X v10.6 in 2009. You never know what might be flying across your network........
Ian McWilliam ________________________________________ From: owner-t...@openbsd.org <owner-t...@openbsd.org> on behalf of Henning Brauer <hb-openbsdt...@ml.bsws.de> Sent: Tuesday, 30 May 2017 7:59:40 PM To: tech@openbsd.org Subject: Re: tcpdump: drop atalk support * Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org> [2017-05-30 10:56]: > > How about just dropping support for /etc/appletalk.names, which as far > > as I can tell was never used, and drop the manpage bit, reducing it by > > 10%. Most of the text in the manpage is outdated anyway, talking about > > /etc/atalk.names - support for which was removed in 2004 with the > > privsep work. Something like this: > > Sure sure. > > My main objection to full removal was that you see a numbered packet > flying over your network and don't know what catagory it is in. > Suddenly google search is neccessary because tcpdump is going out > of the way to not help. So it should help, answering the minimum > question of "what type is that packet, should I worry". agreed. can we limit this to just being able to identify appletalk? note that this is ethertype appletalk, not appletalk over ip. afaik that means pre-macosx. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services GmbH, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS. Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
