[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 9, 2004, at 10:33 AM, Mathew Kayalackakom wrote:

> Help - I am a newbie to Ethereal and would like to decode L2TP with 
> IPSec packets in an 802.11 header using ethereal.

Ethereal can capture on 802.11 networks on some OSes (although only 
with some network cards in some versions of Linux and BSD can it 
capture management and control frames - you want to handle IP frames, 
however, so that's not an issue).

Note that, on Windows, the drivers for at least some cards won't show 
you packets *transmitted* by the machine running Ethereal (or any other 
WinPcap-based application) if you're capturing in promiscuous mode.  I 
don't know whether they capture traffic between two unrelated machines 
in promiscuous mode.  I also don't know what cards those are.

Ethereal can dissect L2TP and IPsec (in the sense of AH and ESP), but 
it can't decrypt encrypted IPsec packets.