Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] question about fddi on ethernet inferface

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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 17:27:17 +0200 (CEST)
Hi,

What's the FDDI to Ethernet converter doing for you? Doesn't it spit out
Ethernet frames? That can be captured by Ethereal. Have you tried it?

Thanx,
Jaap


On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Snyder, William T wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We have an fddi ring we are trying to analyze.
> We have a black box fiber splitter, fiber to ether net converter and a
> pc with ethereal.
> We want to capture the traffic on the FDDI ring.  We know FDDI is
> different then Ethernet packets.
> Is it possible to get ethereal capture for us?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Snyder
>