Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Can not see vlan tag information with Ethereal

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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:25:07 +0100 (CET)
Hi,

You never stated the platform you're working on. Is it a version of
Windows?

Thanx
Jaap

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Peter Wong wrote:

> Sake,
>
> I had gone through the pages that you mentioned and did not find much
> information. Do you still have any lead to trouble shoot the problem?
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sake Blok
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 11:50 AM
> To: Ethereal user support
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Can not see vlan tag information with
> Ethereal
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:59:27AM -0500, Peter Wong wrote:
> > >
> > > I tried to captured the vlan tag information sent from an IP phone which connected to the same hub with my PC running Ethereal. I set up the capture filter with the ip.addr==ip of the ip phone. Ethereal can capture everything else from the IP Phone except vlan tag information. The NIC that I used on the PC is 3Com 3C918 Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller (3C905B-TX Compactible). Is there anything that I missed in set up of the Ethereal? Or do you have any idea where the problem is?
> > >
>
> Basically, this is a driver problem, it strips the 802.1Q tags
> from the frame before passing it to higher protocols.
>
> Please have a look at http://wiki.ethereal.com/CaptureSetup/VLAN
> This helped me in getting the 802.1Q tags to be shown in ethereal.
> (My laptop has broadcom hardware, but I believe there is also info
> for 3com hardware on that page.)
>
>
> Cheers,   Sake