Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Help providing IBM iSeries wiretap

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:32:51 -0800
Guy Harris wrote:
Martin Warnes wrote:

btw. I don't know if I mentioned this before but Ethereal is able to handle SYSTCPDA formatted capture files from the IBM zSeries (OS/390) without problems, might be worth mentioning this on the website.


The page at

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/network/commserver/downloads/systcpda.txt

says:

7) Add SNIFFER(TCPDUMP) to write packet trace records in TCPDUMP format.

In addition, their default format appears to be Sniffer format (at least from what the help file says; I'm somewhat surprised that the help file was a Windows-format text file, i.e. ASCII with CR/LF at the ends of lines, rather than some variable-length record thing in EBCDIC, as I assume it's a help file for z/OS); Ethereal should also be able to read those (if not, that's a bug, and should get fixed if possible).