Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Capture Idle bytes

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:53:18 -0700 (PDT)
haze@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Can ethereal be used to capture idle bytes in the interframe gap?

No.  Ethereal relies on the underlying OS, drivers, and hardware, and what
they supply are Ethernet frames, not whatever happens to be transmitted
between frames.