Adjustable Packet Length

[k-cross]

The packet diagram is great for highly specific packet widths for networking protocols, but it would be more useful to be able to adjust the width of bit representations as right now they are all static 32 bit widths.

Operating system memory layouts; cpu registers; other network protocols like IPv6 (128 bit width) would all benefit from adjustable widths.

Collapsing multi-height rows into a single field would make it easier to read unique fields too. Wikipedia's TCP packet representation for context.

[joshuacookdev]

Are you referencing the 20 ... 56 in the header format diagram when talking about collapsing multi-height rows?

[k-cross]

Yes, exactly that type of format. It's not a big deal but I personally thought it would look a clearer.

[joshuacookdev]

FYSA I found this issue that ended up requesting the same kind of functionality in case you want to follow it:

#6327

[joshuacookdev]

Re: Adjustable Packet Length, you can set 'bitsPerRow' in the style configuration. You'd want to throw this in the first line of your mermaid diagram (to set 16 bit width, you can use any number >= 1):

%%{ init: { 'packet': { 'bitPerRow': 16 } } }%%

[k-cross]

Thank you, I missed this field in the docs. Exactly this!