Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] AW: [ethereal-users] Monitoring Linux-X.25

Note: This archive is from the project's previous web site, ethereal.com. This list is no longer active.

Date Index Thread Index Other Months All Mailing Lists
Date Prev Date Next Thread Prev Thread Next
From: Olivier Abad <abad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 09:57:18 +0100
On ven, jan 14, 2000 at 04:18:44 -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> > The lapbether.c file in linux-2.3.39 seems to use the ethertype
> > ETH_P_X25 which is defined as 0x0805 in if_ether.h
> 
> That's the Ethertype described as "X.25 Level 3" in
> 
> 	http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/ethernet-numbers
> 
> I'd have thought the "Level 3" meant the packet layer protocol rather
> than LAPB (which I'd think of as a layer 2 protocol).

I agree.

> Is there an
> official standard for doing LAPB-over-Ethernet, specifying that 0805
> should be used as the Ethertype?

I don't know. I didn't find any reference to a standard in the kernel
source or documentation.

Olivier
-- 
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
		-- Michael Winner, British film director