[comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc] Wanted : ethernet protocol list...

politis@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL (05/30/91)

	Hello ,

Could anyone give me the translation of these ethernet protocols or give  a
pointer to a site I could FTP an extensive list of protocols along with their
translation ,as I might discover new protocols on our network and I wouldn't 
like to send such a request every week or so ...

				Thank you all,
					Joseph.
              
Please email if you have partial answer to my request and I will summarize them
unless someone can provide me with a FTP site ( no need to have the job done 
twice , right ??? )


E-mail :  politis@vmsa.technion.ac.il


Politis Joseph
Network Team at the Technion Institute 
Haifa ,Israel.

/*********************** start of unknown protocols **************************/
x0808 : 
x0dc0 : 
x2020 : 
x2573 : 
x2e80 : 
x2e87 : 
x302c : 
x3731 : 
x3ae5 : 
x3c01 : 
x3c02 : 
x3c03 : 
x3c07 : 
x3c09 : 
x3c0a : 
x3c0b : 
x3c0d : 
x4430 : 
x4500 : 
x454d : 
x4920 : 
x5612 : 
x6520 : 
x656c : 
x6814 : 
x6c0c : 
x6d65 : 
x6e80 : 
x6f63 : 
x726f : 
x7365 : 
x736d : 
x7415 : 
x7420 : 
x7503 : 
x75e6 : 
x7ae5 : 
x7ee5 : 
x8787 : 
x8b50 : 
x8c1a : 
x9ad9 : 
xaaaa : 
xbf41 : 
xe0d1 : 
xe83c : 
xffff :
/********** end of unknown protocols ( until the next one appears !!!)*******/

08071TCP@MSU.EDU (Doug Nelson) (05/31/91)

>Could anyone give me the translation of these ethernet protocols or give  a
>pointer to a site I could FTP an extensive list of protocols along with their
>translation ,as I might discover new protocols on our network and I wouldn't
>like to send such a request every week or so ...

The list is maintained in the "Assigned Numbers" RFC (RFC 1060, unless
it has been republished recently), available from the standard places.
But I think that most of the numbers you are seeing are bogus values.
Values like 2020, aaaa, and ffff are not legit - aaaa is commonly seen
in test packets, often with a source Ethernet address of aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa.
But I suspect that most of the rest are simply from corrupted packets
that happen to have a valid checksum - odds are that 1 in 65,536
corrupted packets will have a good checksum, or maybe more (this would
require a detailed electrical analysis to know for sure).  If you can
count packets of a given type, make sure you're seeing them with a
higher frequency than your checksum error rates would account for.

Doug Nelson
Michigan State University

mshiels@tmsoft (Michael A. Shiels) (06/01/91)

Just a small correction.  The probability of an error getting through the