On Oct 2, 2003, at 1:32 AM, Philip Stadelmann wrote: > I have to evaluate/develop a 'real' ARCNet Sniffer and I am wondering > whether or not Ethereal is supporting the ARCNet protocol. > > Yes I now that Ethereal supports something likle ARCNet, but which? > Is it 'the ARCNet' or is it the rather funky 'TCP/IP over ARCNet' or > 'Ethernet over ARCNet'?
>>Guy wrote: >>What do you mean by "the ARCNet"? And how are "TCP/IP over ARCNet" or >>"Ethernet over ARCNet" not "the ARCNet" if they're running over ARCNet? Yes thats true. ARCNet is ARCNet, whether it transports TCP/IP data or not. What I am actually looking for is a sniffer, which can 'decode' the ARCNet network data (src, dst, ack, nack,enq etc.) Ever since the network I will have to exam does only support arcnet and no higher level protocol (eg. IP)... I therefor can't use a sniffer which can handle (e.g. TCP/IP) traffic over ARCNet because I only want and can see ARCNet... well well, think I just have to try it out :-/ regards, philip
