Re: What do I need to do to get Ethereal todecode DOCSIS frames ?

Hi,
      Did you update your libpcap?You could get the last version 0.9.4
on the website www.tcpdump.org then install and try again.

2006/6/28, Epps, Clifton <[email protected]>:
> Hi,
> I tried both, however, no luck. The Wireshark user manual suggest one
> has to set the Link-Layer Header Type under capture options to DOCSIS
> but the option field is always grayed out so I can't use it to select
> anything. How do I go about getting access to the capture option
> link-layer header type field ?
>
> Thanks,
> Cliff.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guy Harris
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 2:13 PM
> To: Ethereal user support
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] What do I need to do to get Ethereal
> todecode DOCSIS frames ?
>
>
> On Jun 23, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Epps, Clifton wrote:
>
> > Hi Ethereal-user Support,
> >
> > I'm trying to get Ethereal version 0.10.14 to Decode Docsis frames
> > but I can't get it to work.  The MAC header and MAC management
> > header looks good.  I tried it with all protocols enabled and with
> > only the DOCSIS blocks checked under enabled protocols.  What do I
> > need to do to get Ethereal to decode DOCSIS frames ?
> I think there might have been a bug in 0.10.14 that prevented the
> "Decode all frames as DOCSIS" option from working.  Try upgrading to
> Ethereal 0.99.0 - or to Wireshark 0.99.1pre1 from www.wireshark.org.
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