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Ethereal-users: Re: Re: [Ethereal-users] packet reception parsing problem

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From: "bunty " <bunty123_4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 5 Apr 2005 07:49:45 -0000

Hello,
          Does that mean while capturing packets, if i set capture on any interface it will use sll and if i give specific interface like eth0 or eth1 then it must print eth instead sll.
          Is that right??
regards,
bunty.
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 julien.leproust@xxxxxxxx wrote :
>Hello,
>
>bunty a écrit :
>>        I want to know why some times i get protocols in frame output for icmp packets as eth:ip:icmp and sometimes sll:ip:icmp?
>>        why same pc recognises icmp pacekts as eth as well as sll? I am
>
>SLL is Linux cooked mode capture. It is a fake link-layer header, used instead of the real link-layer header (Ethernet) when capturing on the fake 'any' interface (regardless of the link types). It should contain the source MAC address if available, the protocol id, and other link-layer related information.
>
>Regards,
>
>-- Julien Leproust
>
>