Giles Scott wrote:
Send me a packet capture and I'll take a look at adding it (I've got the
ieee spec).
The OUI Extended Ethertype is more of a framework for protocols than
much of a protocol itself; I've checked in a dissector for the OUI
Extended Ethertype stuff that provides a framework into which dissectors
can be plugged, similar to the framework for SNAP (not surprising, given
that the protocol is clearly modeled after SNAP).
I have no captures with which to test it (not that there's much to test,
given that there aren't any dissectors for protocols running atop the
OUI Extended Ethertype; all it'll do is display the OUI and protocol ID).
There's nothing for Ethereal to do with 88B5 or 88B6 - there's nothing
specified by 802a as packet contents, so *all* the dissection would have
to be done by the dissector for the protocol; a dissector for a protocol
that's using 88B5 or 88B6 would just register itself in the "ethertype"
dissector table with the appropriate Ethernet type value.