Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] mergecap: How to merge Ethernet & Linuxcookedcapture files?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:29:45 -0800
Maynard, Chris wrote:

I'll leave the question to Guy and the rest of you experts, but when I
was searching through the mailing list posts, I found a post from Guy
back in July 2001 indicating that Etherpeek,


...which doesn't support Linux cooked link-layer headers;


i4btrace for BSD,


...which doesn't support Linux cooked link-layer headers;


iptrace for AIX


...which doesn't support Linux cooked link-layer headers;


and the Toshiba TR-600 & TR-650 formats


...which doesn't support Linux cooked link-layer headers.


also apparently support per-packet encapsulations
You need more than just support for per-packet encapsulations - you need support for Linux cooked link-layer headers. Note that we don't control *any* of those capture file formats, so we can't add support for any link-layer type of our own choice to them.