Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] FW: "decode as" in tethereal

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From: "Jeeva Chelladhurai" <jeeva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:50:25 -0500
Thanks Guy.

> > > Is there anyway I can do "decode as" option in tethereal?
> 
> is "no, nobody's written the code to do that".

If the ethereal group wish to have this option, I would be able
to contribute. Anyway I will playing around with my local build, I have
to accommodate this feature. 

Thanks

Jeeva.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 5:36 PM
> To: Jeeva Chelladhurai
> Cc: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] FW: "decode as" in tethereal
> 
> 
> > Would somebody pls. answer my question.
> 
> The answer to your first question:
> 
> > > Is there anyway I can do "decode as" option in tethereal?
> 
> is "no, nobody's written the code to do that".
> 
> The answer to your second question is:
> 
> > > Is there anyway I can edit the source ports on the caputured data?
> 
> is "Ethereal doesn't offer any tool to edit the contents of captured
> packets, so you'd have to write your own program to do that, or figure
> out where in the raw file data the port numbers occur and edit the file
> with a binary file editor".