Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Unknown interface

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From: "Bryan Miller" <millerb@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 12:45:00 -0700
> Guy Harris [gharris@xxxxxxxxx] appears to have written:
>
> > Bryan Miller wrote:
> 
> > The capture file has a packet with a network type that Ethereal 
> > doesn't support.  (iptrace: interface type IFT=0x01 unknown or 
> > unsupported)
> > 
> > The interface is a virtual interface, no physical layer under it.
> 
> So what does the packet data begin with?  An IP header?

The packets consist of:

Network header, IP
Transport header, UDP
Proprietary header
Proprietary payload, compressed and encrypted