Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] PPPoE over ATM

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Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 14:15:32 +0200
Hi, could you send in some captures so we can take a look at it.

On 5/27/05, Schuler, Dr. Christian <Christian.Schuler@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed and compiled Ethereal 0.10.11 on a Sun/Solaris Machine
> with a Marconi ATM adapter card. I'm trying to capture packets from
> PPPoE over ATM connections. My problem is that this protocol stack is
> obviously not supported in Ethereal, which results in wrong decoding.
> 
> I found out that I have 6 additional Bytes in front of the IP-Paket:
> 
>  | fe fe 03  | cf 00 21  | 45 00 .......
>    LLC Head    PPP Header  IP ->
> 
> Has anyone found a solution for this ?
> 
> The only idea I had was to write a dissector just to skip the 6 bytes,
> but the effort to understand the Ethereal internals seems to be rather
> high.
> 
> Regards,
> Christian
> 
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