Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] ATM support in Ethereal

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:20:12 -0800
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:49:36PM +0100, Håvard Harstad wrote:
> According to the webpage Ethereal supports ATM on Linux. Is Ethereal only 
> supporting ATM LAN emulation (i.e ethernet simulated over ATM)

No.

> or is it possible to use Ethereal to capture raw ATM-cells? 

No.

What Ethernet support is what libpcap supports and, on Linux, what
libpcap supports is what you can get from a PF_PACKET socket (or, on
2.0[.x] kernels or with libpcaps built on really old systems,
PF_INET/SOCK_PACKET sockets).

On ATM adapters, that includes, I think, Classical IP traffic, and
possibly LANE traffic.

It does *not*, as far as I know, include raw ATM cells.