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Support 802.1Q VLAN encapsulation #31

Open holgerw opened 7 years ago

holgerw commented 7 years ago

Hi Tobias.

Do you intend to support parsing BGP traffic with some level of encapsulation?

I saw right now the parser assumes that the IP payload is directly encapsulated by the Ethernet frame. In case of a network with VLAN there might be an additional 802.1Q VLAN header before the IP payload.

Supporting this might open deployment options. In our case, we mirrored a port with BGP traffic on an Extreme Network Switch. This mirroring necessarily introduces a 802.1Q encapsulation.

thannaske commented 7 years ago

Hi Holger,

thank you for message. I will flag your issue as feature request and will head back to it as soon as I'm back from vacation. I guess it won't be a problem to support 802.1Q encapsulation in a future version. As soon as this feature is implemented I will get back to you.