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

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:57:09 -0700
Guy Harris wrote:

I did, however, find

    http://stuff.mit.edu/people/jhawk/ctp.html

in a Google search; it says that it's in the original DEC/Intel/Xerox spec, but not documented anywhere else, and he links to a PDF made by scanning (but *not* OCRing) that part of the spec.

I've checked in a dissector that *should* properly dissect those frames, although I've not tested it yet (I think I have captures that contain loopback frames).