Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Does Ethereal support the 'real' ARCNet?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:40:57 -0700

On Oct 2, 2003, at 1:32 AM, Philip Stadelmann wrote:

I have to evaluate/develop a 'real' ARCNet Sniffer and I am wondering
whether or not Ethereal is supporting the ARCNet protocol.
 
Yes I now that Ethereal supports something likle ARCNet, but which?
Is it 'the ARCNet' or is it the rather funky 'TCP/IP over ARCNet' or
'Ethernet over ARCNet'?
What do you mean by "the ARCNet"? And how are "TCP/IP over ARCNet" or "Ethernet over ARCNet" not "the ARCNet" if they're running over ARCNet?
What Ethereal gets, when capturing on a network interface, is what the driver for the network interface, the OS's packet capture mechanism, and libpcap/WinPcap support.
The original contributor of Ethereal's ARCnet support was, I think, using it on Linux. You'd have to ask him (Peter Fales) for details on ARCNet support. I don't know whether he, or anybody else, has tried it on any of the BSDs, or on Windows.