Response for the mail of Gilbert and Guy (original mail appended at the end):
Hello Gilbert, hello Guy,
first results:
the patch didn't work. I had a closer look at the data transmitted by the Linux-lapether module
transmitted to the network. The problem is that Linux-X.25 adds an additional length header
in front of the LAPB data. This seems logically ok, because they can't use a start-
and end-flag (0x7e), but on the other hand they also don't use a LLC framing.
consequence:
at the moment the implementation seems to be very experimental and therefore I wouldn't
check the code to the Ethereal code base. Maybe it would make sense to integrate it later
as "Linux-X25", because in its present state it is far away from standards.
Please tell me, wether it would make sense to implement an intermediate layer module
for Ethereal, wich could be switched between the ethernet layer and the LAPB layer module
of Ethereal. It's only purpose would be to deal with the additional length-field between
the ethernet header and LAPB.
Siegfried
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Gilbert Ramirez Jr. [SMTP:gram@xxxxxxxxxx]
Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2000 14:37
An: Vogl
Betreff: Re: [ethereal-users] Monitoring Linux-X.25
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 11:30:18AM +0100, Vogl wrote:
> Hello Gilbert,
>
> it seems that I have problems with my mail. Although the mail server logs report a mail
> sent to You, I don't have it in my "sent"-items. Did You get the mail?
>
> Thanks,
> Siegfried
>
Yes, I did. In the future, could you just send mail to ethereal-dev ?
Both I and Guy Harris (another core developer for Ethereal) are on that
list. It's easier to share information that way.
thanks,
--gilbert
> I've got two responses from "Guy Harris" from different email addresses
> but I think You are the same person.
Correct. "guy@xxxxxxxxxx" is my e-mail address at work, and
"gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx" is my e-mail address at home.
> First, thanks for Your quick help. I will try the patch and report the
> results to the development team of ethereal.
Thanks. I've checked the code from the patch into the Ethereal code
base, so it (or whatever changes are needed) will be in the next release.
