Wireshark also supports the encapsulation iFCP.
It would probably be easy to add mFCP (dead brocade protocol) as well
if an example capture was made available.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> zhen li wrote:
>
> > I am very excited when finding fibre channel decoding feature in
> > ethereal,
> > I wish to see how can ethereal decode fibre channel packets,
> > but I can not deviced a cap file including fibre channel protocol,
> > so can you help me to generate such a file
>
> Wireshark (that's Ethereal's new name:
>
> http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html#q1.2
>
> ) only dissects Fibre Channel when it's encapsulated with:
>
> Cisco's special encapsulations of Fibre Channel frames in Ethernet
> frames (for debugging trace purposes);
>
> CNT's "Cross Point Frame Injector" encapsulation of FC in UDP packets;
>
> RFC 3821 FCIP;
>
> T11's proposed Fibre Channel over Ethernet encapsulation.
>
> We don't currently support any encapsulation for "raw" FC frames.
>
> Are you trying to capture a Fibre Channel trace on an FC network (rather
> than an Ethernet or other non-FC network where one of the encapsulations
> listed above are used)?
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