Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Support for MAC Control Frames

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From: "Giles Scott" <gscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 07:34:38 -0700
Hi,

I've just submitted a dissector to decode these frames.

Cheers

Giles Scott


-----Original Message-----
From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Harris
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 10:51 PM
To: Ethereal user support
Cc: giampiero.borgonovo@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Support for MAC Control Frames

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Alessandro Timossi wrote:
> we are using Ethereal (release 0.10.3) to debug our HW/SW equipment.
> We are debugging the MAC Control Frame as standardized by 
> IEEE Std 802.3-2002 Clause 31 (MAC Control) - Annex 31A and Annex
31-B,
> but Ethereal seems not to be able to know the MAC Control Frame
Format,
> i.e. the ethernet type 0x8808 is seen as unknown.
> Does Ethereal support MAC Control Frames?

Nobody's written any code to dissect them, so, no, it doesn't support
them (except to display them as raw data).

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