Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Re: ethereal 8.11.0 interface question

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:53:43 -0800 (PST)
> I've never used Token Ring under AIX, so I'm not sure how that beast will
> work.

Hopefully, Token Ring on AIX supports DLPI.  If it doesn't, it'd only be
sniffable using BPF, and, as Craig says:

> bpf under AIX is totally brain-dead and only supports
> IBM's hacked and closed source version of tcpdump.  Best to avoid /dev/bpf0
> like the plague.

so that may not work particularly well, either.

I don't know whether Token Ring supports DLPI on AIX, however.

(Note also that the only data link types libpcap currently supports for
DLPI are DL_CSMACD/DL_ETHER and DL_FDDI - more work would probably be
needed to make libpcap support Token Ring on DLPI.)