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Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Windows based text2pcap utility

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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 16:12:04 +0100
Guyt et al,

> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:16:02PM +0100, 
> Alistair.McGlinchy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > text2pcap.exe should be in your ethereal install directory. 
> > It works perfectly for Ethernet text. However I cannot get 
> > Token ring text to be reimported.

> You appear to be assuming that the term "Token Ring" refers 
> to a single unique type of network.
> 
> It doesn't.
[Snip]
> So the right value for IEEE 802.5 token ring is 6:
> 
> 	#define DLT_IEEE802     6       /* IEEE 802 Networks */
> 
> not 4.
 

Bingo. Works perfectly.  Thanks for the explination. Wow, I really should
understand Layer 1 a bit better. I just feel a bit naughty playing with the
electons directly :-)  I think I'll let my TCP/IP driver do that for me. 

Alistair


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