Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Re: Conversion between Ethereal and Finisar surveyor tool!
Why?
Because it's easier to capture and transmit instead of building from
scratch.
Why not pings?
Because sometimes I need to test how my machine / network reacts to a
specific traffic type
State - usually not important for what I do (traffic tests in CPE - DSLAM
environment)
Ran.
ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/03/2006 10:14:54:
> Why do you want to replay packets?
>
> For todays protocols there is so much state associated with each
> connection so replaying packets is in 99% of the cases just equivalent
> with sending random ping packets.
>
>
>
>
> On 3/10/06, Ran.Shenhar@xxxxxxxxxxx <Ran.Shenhar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I remember there were questions (some by myself) about how to convert
> > captures by ethereal to a format readable by Finisar Surveyor in order
to
> > replay them.
> >
> > Maybe I'm the last one to know about it, but if not, hope this could
help
> > others: WildPackets has a free tool that translates between file
formats
> >
(http://www.wildpackets.com/products/free_utilities/proconvert/overview)
> > It's free, only requires registration to download. (didn't read the
fine
> > print, though)
> >
> > Checked it out briefly - seems to do the job.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Ran.
> >
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