Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] PPP decode problem (fwd)

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 12:43:01 -0800
> In the documentation I have about the Sniffer file format, 7 and 8 are
> defined as:
> 
> #define NETWORK_SYNCHRO      7 /* Internetwork Analyzer */
> #define NETWORK_ASYNC        8 /* Internetwork Analyzer */
> 
> Should one of these be LAPB and the other PPP?

Perhaps they should, but I assume Olivier had an X.25 capture with 7 in
it, and Ton had a PPP capture with 7 in it.

PPP can run over synchronous or asynchronous links, so either of those
could, I suspect, be PPP.