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

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 19:36:19 +1000
From: "Philip"
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Does Ethereal support the 'real' 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 :-/

Use Edit/Protocols and disable ARP and IP and then you should only see the
actual ARCNet packets and
ethereal will not attempt to decode the payload.


Do you have any example captures of say 1000-10000 packets you can donate?
I would like to add ARCNet to the conversation list for completeness.