Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Does Ethereal support the 'real' ARCNet?

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From: "Philip" <etherphilip@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:44:34 +0200
On Oct 2, 2003, at 1:32 AM, Philip Stadelmann wrote:
> I have to evaluate/develop a 'real' ARCNet Sniffer and I am wondering
> whether or not Ethereal is supporting the ARCNet protocol.
>
> Yes I now that Ethereal supports something likle ARCNet, but which?
> Is it 'the ARCNet' or is it the rather funky 'TCP/IP over ARCNet' or
> 'Ethernet over ARCNet'?

>>Guy wrote:
>>What do you mean by "the ARCNet"?  And how are "TCP/IP over ARCNet" or
>>"Ethernet over ARCNet" not "the ARCNet" if they're running over ARCNet?

Yes thats true. ARCNet is ARCNet, whether it transports TCP/IP data or not.
What I am actually looking for is a sniffer, which can 'decode' the ARCNet
network data (src, dst, ack, nack,enq etc.) Ever since the network I will
have
to exam does only support arcnet and no higher level protocol (eg. IP)...
I therefor can't use a sniffer which can handle (e.g. TCP/IP) traffic over
ARCNet
because I only want and can see ARCNet... well well, think I just have
to try it out :-/

regards,
philip