Hi Guy,
> I don't know what it means to "dissect" an inter-packet gap,
> however....
How long it is for example and what kind of idle were sent.
> Or you could have a "PHY-level Ethernet" dissector that
> dissects *only*
> the preamble, SOP, and EOP, and hands the packet data to the existing
> Ethernet dissector; that wouldn't put them in the *same* part of the
> protocol tree, but some would argue that's not a bug but a feature.
That what I need I think.
> > Background: I�m working on a traffic recorder/replayer on
> the PHY level
> > (hw driven) and it would be nice if I could use the
> ethereal software to
> > analyze my recorded traffic.
>
> How "PHY-level" are you doing?
line coding level, so its like you see it on the line.
> For example, are you recording the octets of the packet data,
> or the raw
> 8B6T symbols for 100Mb Ethernet or the raw 8B/10B symbols for 1000Mb
> Ethernet?
We are talking about 10GE. 64b/66b block codes, 8b/10b XAUI side and
something like that.
> If you're recording the raw symbols, it'd be a *lot* more work for
> Ethereal to dissect the packets.
That�s what I�ve already done :-) .
Please give me some hints on howto implement such kind of dissector
mentioned above.
Best regards,
thomas