Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] How to tell original PCAP capture file from Alexey's modified one

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From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 03:54:00 +1000
Hi,

I have just noticed that there appears to be two types of pcap capture
formats, with different headers. 

How can I tell if a normal pcap_hdr is being used, or a pcap_modified_hdr?



Regards
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