Ethereal-users: RE: [ethereal-users] Support for Token-Ring

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From: Shaun Clowes <shaman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:26:29 +1000 (EST)
> > The DLT_ value that appears to be used for Token Ring is DLT_IEEE802; it
> > may be reasonable to have Win32 libpcap ports use that for Token Ring
> > captures 

Yep, this is the one.

> > - even if there aren't any Token Ring machines at the
> > Politecnico di Torino, it might still be worth sticking the code in, so
> > that users who *do* have Token Ring can test it (the page at

I would stick my hand up to test it at any stage, I've been meaning to try
and hack in the code myself, but I don't have VC++, SDK and DDK to build
it with,

> It shouldn't be too difficult. Anyway, we need that libpcap supports Token
> Ring . As far as I know, current libpcap doesn't.

Is this win libpcap or *NIX libpcap? The unix one works fine (actually,
with some caveats, I sent in a patch for a problem to tcpdump.org), but
the windows one doesn't open the device.

> > Ethereal/Tethereal can dissect Token Ring packets.)

And an amazing program it is too :)

Shaun