Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Support for MAC Control Frames

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:51:26 -0700
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 04:44:46PM +0200, Alessandro Timossi wrote:
> we are using Ethereal (release 0.10.3) to debug our HW/SW equipment.
> We are debugging the MAC Control Frame as standardized by 
> IEEE Std 802.3-2002 Clause 31 (MAC Control) - Annex 31A and Annex 31-B,
> but Ethereal seems not to be able to know the MAC Control Frame Format,
> i.e. the ethernet type 0x8808 is seen as unknown.
> Does Ethereal support MAC Control Frames?

Nobody's written any code to dissect them, so, no, it doesn't support
them (except to display them as raw data).