Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Packet Creation

[Tom Benstead <tom_benstead@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > How do I go about creating a new data packet?
> 
> What do you mean by "creating a new data packet"? 
> Are you talking about 
> adding the ability to transmit an arbitrary packet
> from Ethereal, or 
> about editing a capture file and inserting a new
> packet into it?


I am just playing about with the cfile structure and
was hoping that by editing cfile.pd I could get the
save method to save my changes out to a new capture
file. But it seems that when you save a capture file,
the capture file is re-loaded before saving. I tested
this by loading a capture file into Ethereal, then
used an external hex editor to change the file. When I
went back into Ethereal and saved the capture, the
external changes were saved too. I would have thought
Ethereal would have used the contents of cfile.pd to
create the new capture file but this does not seem to
be the case.

Tom.

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