Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Capture file format?

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From: David Frascone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:29:39 -0500
I would make your program output in a "common" format, like the one 
tcpdump or snoop uses.  Then ethereal will be able to read it, along with
other programs.

I would *not* suggest re-inventing anything, but simply convert your
data to a more popular format.

On Thursday, 18 Apr 2002, MICHAEL M DELANEY wrote:
> What format does etheral expect a caputre file to be in?  We're thinking
> about using etheral for CAN (its a char device, its kinda like multicast
> serial), but when I tried to load a caputre file we made, the data parser
> didn't seem to be able to read most of the file.  The program we're using
> to dump the bus to a file makes 26 byte "packets".  Is it possible to get
> etheral to understand this, or would I be better off reinventing the
> wheel, and making my own gui?
> thanks,
> Mike 
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David Frascone

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