Ethereal-users: RE: Antwort:Re: [ethereal-users] Token-Ring

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From: "Fulvio Risso" <risso@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 07:38:03 +0200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ethereal-users@xxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-ethereal-users@xxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Guy Harris
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 08:48
> To: Guy Harris
> Cc: Michael.Nau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ethereal-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Antwort:Re: [ethereal-users] Token-Ring
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:24:11PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > Once WinPcap (the Windows libpcap port) supports Token Ring (with a DLT_
> > type of DLT_IEEE802, which appears to be the *de facto* standard DLT_
> > type for Token Ring), Ethereal should support it - it already includes
> > Token Ring dissectors, and treats DLT_IEEE802 captures as Token Ring
> > captures.
>
> ...although capture filters won't currently work correctly on
> source-routed packets (making it handle them requires some work).
>
> However, as the same problem exists on *BSD and Linux, that's not a
> reason not to handle them in WinPcap - Windows wouldn't be any worse off
> than *BSD or Linux.

Any volunteers to add TR support in WinPcap?
We're very happy to provide the *latest* sources... (even if these are not
very stable yet...)

	fulvio