Re: [Ethereal-users] Solaris support atm

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:51:25PM +0200, Stephan Korsback (EAB) wrote:
> I wonder if Ethereal have support for ATM on Solaris with ba0 device ?

If you

	1) have SunATM 3.0 (possibly earlier versions);

	2) have a recent version of Ethereal (0.9.6, or any later
	   releases that come out);

	3) have the current CVS version of libpcap, from

		http://www.tcpdump.org/

	   installed (*NOT* libpcap 0.7.1, that doesn't support SunATM);

then Ethereal supports SunATM devices.

> Maybe it is possible to get that if I would compile the source code
> however.  The binary Ethereal 0.8.15 I got it does not work .

Correct, it doesn't work.  You need the latest version of Ethereal, and
you need the current CVS version of libpcap.

> I can not see any differens in the device configuration if I compare to
> hme0

The differences are that

	1) the SunATM driver is different from the Happy Meal Ethernet
	   driver, and the operations that libpcap normally performs on
	   Solaris DLPI devices don't work with the SunATM driver;

	2) ATM isn't Ethernet, and libpcap needs to support the
	   link-layer type for SunATM, as does Ethereal.