Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] PPP Throughput

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From: "Fulvio Risso" <risso@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:00:44 +0100
Hi.
Unfortunately WinPcap is not able to capture PPP frames.
PPP connections are seen as Ethernet links, so no PPP (neither LCP and NCP)
packets can be captured.
Cheers,

	fulvio

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> I am using Ethereal on Windows 95 platform. I am running a PPP
> session. When I look at the captured data I only see TCP layer data.
> Hence, I can compute TCP layer throughput. However, I want to look
> at PPP layer data and throughput. I want to see PPP packets where I
> can see the amount of IP header compression is going on if the IP header
> compression is turned on. Can Ethereal capture PPP packets? Please let me
> know if someone can help. Thanks.
>
> Amit
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