Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Frame Relay question.

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From: Jeff Foster <jfoste@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 07:59:15 -0500 
From: Georgios Papadopoulos
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 6:16 AM

> I've noticed that Ethereal handles Frame Relay encapsulated packets, my 
> question is how does ethereal figures out that the captured packet is
Frame 
> Relay? is that done by libpcap or is it an additional functionality of 
> wiretap?

This is done by wiretap. I believe that ethereal will only detect 
frame relay if the file is a Sniffer type file. Check wiretap/ngsniffer.c
for the details.

Jeff Foster
jfoste@xxxxxxxxxxxx.

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