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Re: Extracting outer MAC Address


From: Jim Young <jyoung () gsu edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 07:35:00 +0000

Hello Rayne,

On Monday, January 19, 2015 1:58 AM, Rayne <hjazz6 () ymail com> wrote:

I see 2 full Ethernet headers in Wireshark - Ethernet with Source/Dest
MAC address, IPv4, EtherIP Version 4, Ethernet with Source/Dest address,
802.1Q VLAN, IP.

Wireshark can dissect it.

Is is possible to attach a small example capture file of what you are
looking at? One packet should do.

Your description does not sound exactly like like the following, but there
are encapsulating protocols such as IEEE 802.1ah-2008, Provider Backbone
Bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1ah-2008) that do MAC-in-MAC
style encapsulation.


Assuming Wireshark recognizes your packet as something like an IEEE
802.1ah packet there might be a protocol specific display filter that
could get you the "outer" header's source mac value you seek.

Regards,

Jim Y.



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