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

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 13:08:45 -0700
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:36:19PM +1000, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> From: "Philip"
> 
> > network data (src, dst, ack, nack,enq etc.) Ever since the network I will
> > have
> > to exam does only support arcnet and no higher level protocol (eg. IP)...
> > I therefor can't use a sniffer which can handle (e.g. TCP/IP) traffic over
> > ARCNet
> > because I only want and can see ARCNet... well well, think I just have
> > to try it out :-/
> 
> Use Edit/Protocols and disable ARP and IP and then you should only see the
> actual ARCNet packets and
> ethereal will not attempt to decode the payload.

If there's no IP traffic on his network, as he's saying is the case, he
doesn't need to disable them - they won't be decoded.

However, I presume there's *some* protocol running atop ARCNET; Ethereal
also attempts to decode Appletalk, IPX, Banyan Vines, and BACnet atop
ARCNET.