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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal and finding bad nics on Workstations and Servers

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From: Hansang Bae <hbae@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 01:17:43 -0400
>On 5/24/05, Hansang Bae <hbae@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>The only vendor that I know of which supported forwarding for damaged
>ethernet frames was Cabletron gear.  Not sure if the current models
>support this anymore.


On 01:00 AM 5/25/2005, Saurabh Bhasin wrote:
>Some Xircom cards did/do it as well.

CBE-10/100 I believe.   I still have the "official" Network General/NAI NIC downstairs.  But I was talking about switches not passing the damaged frame to the analyzer.  i.e. your analyzer would not even get the chance to look at damaged frames.

hsb