Mike McCarty wrote:
What does the EN10MB mean? I'm guessing Ether Net 10 MegaBit per second. I'm using 100 Base T, so I wonder whether this is just a left-over and now inappropriate message.
I didn't know, but after a little poking in the sources it seems that libpcap (packet capture) uses the same constant DLT_EN10MB for all kinds of Ethernet as we know it. I guess because there is nothing to tell the various kinds apart at the layer libpcap operates at. So it's not trying to assert anything more than it is an Ethernet interface rather than Irda, SLIP, etc that tcpdump can also work with, despite the needlessly specific 10 in the name.
-Andy
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