Ethernet Type Codes

Here's a list of known Ethernet type codes.
Use these to help write filters or to decipher captures.  
Hexadecimal
Description
(Notes)
0000-05DC IEEE 802.3 Length Field  
0101-01FF Experimental; for development  (Conflicts with 802.3 length fields)
0200 Xerox PUP  (Conflicts with IEEE 802.3 length fields)
0201 Xerox PUP Address Translation  (Conflicts with IEEE 802.3 length fields)
0600 Xerox XNS IDP  
0800 DoD Internet Protocol  (IP) *1 #2
0801 X.75 Internet  
0802 NBS Internet  
0803 ECMA Internet  
0804 CHAOSnet  
0805 X.25 Level 3  
0806 Address Resolution Protocol  (for IP and CHAOS)
0807 XNS Compatibility  
081C Symbolics Private  
0888-088A Xyplex  
0900 Ungermann-Bass Network Debugger  
0A00 Xerox IEEE 802.3 PUP  
0A01 Xerox IEEE 802.3 PUP Address Translation  
0BAD Banyan VINES IP  
0BAE Banyan VINES Loopback  
0BAF Banyan VINES Echo  
1000 Berkeley trailer negotiation  
1001-100F Berkeley trailer encapsulation for IP  
1600 VALID system protocol  
4242 PCS Basic Block Protocol  
5208 BBN Simnet Private  
6000 DEC unassigned  
6001 DEC Maintenance Operation Protocol  (MOP) Dump/Load Assistance
6002 DEC MOP Remote Console  
6003 DEC DECnet Phase IV  
6004 DEC Local Area Transport  (LAT)
6005 DEC DECnet Diagnostics  
6006 DEC DECnet Customer Use  
6007 DEC Local Area VAX Cluster  (LAVC)
6008 DEC unassigned  
6009 DEC unassigned  
6010-6014 3Com Corporation  
7000 Ungermann-Bass  (UB) Download
7001 UB diagnostic/loopback  
7002 UB diagnostic/loopback  
7020-7029 LRT  (England)
7030 Proteon  
8003 Cronus VLN  
8004 Cronus Direct  
8005 HP Probe protocol  
8006 Nestar  
8008 AT&T  
8010 Excelan  
8013 Silicon Graphics diagnostic  (obsolete)
8014 Silicon Graphics network games  (obsolete)
8015 Silicon Graphics reserved type  (obsolete)
8016 Silicon Graphics XNS NameServer, bounce server  (obsolete)
8019 Apollo Domain  
802E Tymshare  
802F Tigan, Inc.  
8035 Reverse Address Resolution Protocol  (RARP)
8036 Aeonic Systems  
8038 DEC LANBridge Management  
8039 DEC unassigned  
803A DEC unassigned  
803B DEC unassigned  
803C DEC unassigned  
803D DEC Ethernet CSMA/CD Encryption protocol  
803E DEC unassigned  
803F DEC LAN Traffic Monitor Protocol  
8040 DEC unassigned  
8041 DEC unassigned  
8042 DEC unassigned  
8044 Planning Research Corporation  
8046-8047 AT&T  
8049 ExperData  (France)
805B Versatile Message Translation Protocol RFC-1045  (Stanford)
805C Stanford V Kernel, production  
805D Evans & Sutherland  
8060 Little Machines  
8062 Counterpoint Computers  
8065-8066 University of Mass. at Amherst  
8067 Veeco Integrated Automation  
8068 General Dynamics  
8069 AT&T  
806A Autophon  (Switzerland)
806C ComDesign  
806D Compugraphic Corporation  
806E-8077 Landmark Graphics Corporation  
807A Matra  (France)
807C Merit Internodal  
807D-8080 Vitalink Communications  
8080 Vitalink TransLAN III Management  
8081-8083 Counterpoint Computers  
8088-808A Xyplex  
809B Kinetics EtherTalk  (AppleTalk over Ethernet)
809C-809E Datability  
809F Spider Systems Ltd.  
80A3 Nixdorf Computers  (West Germany)
80A4-80B3 Siemens Gammasonics Inc.  
80C0-80C3 Digital Communications Assoc. Inc.  
80C1 DCA Data Exchange Cluster  
80C4 Banyan VINES IP  
80C5 Banyan VINES Echo  
80C6 Pacer Software  
80C7 Applitek Corporation  
80C8-80CC Intergraph Corporation  
80CD-80CE Harris Corporation  
80CF-80D2 Taylor Instrument  
80D3-80D4 Rosemount Corporation  
80D5 IBM SNA Services over Ethernet  
80DD Varian Associates  
80DE Integrated Solutions Transparent Remote File System  (TRFS)
80DF Integrated Solutions  
80E0-80E3 Allen-Bradley  
80E4-80F0 Datability  
80F2 Retix  
80F3 Kinetics AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol  (AARP)
80F4-80F5 Kinetics  
80F7 Apollo Computer  
80FF-8103 Wellfleet Communications  
8069 AT&T  
807B Dansk Data Elektronik A/S  
8107 Symbolics Private  
8108 Symbolics Private  
8109 Symbolics Private  
8130 Waterloo Microsystems Inc.  
8131 VG Laboratory Systems  
8137 Novell NetWare IPX  (old)
8137-8138 Novell, Inc.  
8139-813D KTI  
9000 Loopback  (Configuration Test Protocol)
9001 Bridge Communications XNS Systems Management  
9002 Bridge Communications TCP/IP Systems Management  
FF00 BBN VITAL LANBridge cache wakeups  
 
1  An asterisk (*) indicates the current connection in various informational displays.
2  A pound sign (#) is a delimiting character for configuration commands that contain arbitrary text strings.


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