Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Parsing a brand new MAC Layer packet.

[Senthil Sundaram <ssundara@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Can I use ethereal to parse a packet that is not a packet captured on the 
network. For example that packet does not have an Ethernet header or IP 
header or anything like that. Lets consider the file contains a packets of 
a brand new MAC layer protocol called XYZ. How do I make ethereal 
understand this file format and packet format?

- Do i enhance the wiretap library to understand the new file format?

- Lets say the XYZ MAC layer protocol encapsulates IP packets. So after I 
strip off my xyz MAC headers, I would like to able to hand the packets over 
to the IP layer. How do I acheive this? Can I do this without modifying the 
IP Layer dissector ?


Thanks
Senthil