Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] ethereal 0.3.16 on FreeBSD-current shows funny characters...

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From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 23:33:05 +0200
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 04:22:24PM -0500, Gerald Combs - Unicom Communications wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> 
> > I'm unable to scan the traffic on the ISDN device /dev/isppp0.
> > Ethernet works ...
> > 
> > In the attachement bpf.h just for the case you need it and
> > the file xxx which is from a scan of the ISDN interface
> > (UUCP over IP).
> > 
> > I have no idea what's going wrong when scanning the WAN interface.
> 
>   It looks like libpcap is using DLT_NULL for the link type for this
> interface.  Ethereal doesn't currently support this, but it shouldn't be
> very difficult to add.  I'll try to have it fixed in the next release. 

Thanks, very kind from you. If you have a patch, I could test and
add it to the FreeBSD port, since I have commit privileges.

So things would work until you release the next version.

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