Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] ethereal-0.8.8: frame-problem with device ippp1

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From: Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 22:34:20 +0200
Hi,

Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 12:53:02PM +0200, Reinhard Nissl wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Attached is a capture of some ping packets.
> >
> > Bye.
> > --
> > Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl
> > mailto:rnissl@xxxxxx
> 
> Try this patch. It's against Ethereal 0.8.8. Right now it just skips that
> fake MAC address at the beginning and starts decoding at the PPP header.
> It correctly decodes the sample trace you sent.

Yes it does. Thanks for the fast response!

But there remains one more problem: if the dial-up connection is currently
down, the first 10 bytes are all zero. See the attached sample2.cap, which
shows a name lookup, that triggers dialing.

Bye.
--
Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl
mailto:rnissl@xxxxxx

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