Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Ethereal and Cabletron 10/100 SmartSwitch

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From: Breen Mullins <bmullins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:10:32 -0700
At 5:40 PM +1000 9/20/00, Asghar Hosseini wrote:


> 2) what do I have to do in Ethereal in order to  detect the switch
>initial startup behaviour ( like reading the  MAC address  of this
>switch ) ?   Regards   Asghar  

Hi -

I'm not familiar with this switch, but if it's a typical 'dumb' switch (without
management capabilities, and not running the Spanning Tree Protocol)
then it won't have a MAC address and won't generate any traffic itself.

If it _is_ running STP, you'll receive BPDUs which will have the MAC
address of the switch port you're connected to.

Hope this helps.

Regards,


Breen

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