Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] strange LOOP packets

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From: Breen Mullins <bmullins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:18:21 -0700
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 10:30, Guy Harris wrote:

> 
> According to a comment in the Ethereal source:
> 
> $ egrep LOOP *.h
> etypes.h:#ifndef ETHERTYPE_LOOP
> etypes.h:#define ETHERTYPE_LOOP         0x9000  /* used for layer 2 
> testing (do i see my own frames on the wire) */
> 
> I assume there's a spec *somewhere* for this, perhaps in the 802.3
> spec.

Probably there. According to
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ethernet-numbers
that ethertype comes from  the original Xerox spec.

Breen
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