Ethereal-dev: RE: [ethereal-dev] other sniffers

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From: Ashok Narayanan <ashokn@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 15:00:37 -0500 (EST)
Farley, Tim (ISSAtlanta) writes:
 > >I've looked at it a little bit, but many months ago. Before I 
 > >left my previous employer, where I had access to the NG Sniffer, 
 > >I made some small trace files,
 > >with 1 to 5 packets in each, and saved them as both compressed 
 > >and uncompressed.
 > 
 > I was going to attack it in another way that I think might be quicker.  I'll
 > let you know how it goes.
 > 
 > On a related note, I noticed that an older copy of NETXRAY that we have here
 > in the office has the ability to write "compressed" files too, with an
 > extension of .CAZ.  On a hunch, I took one of these and ran it through GZIP,
 > and sure enough it appears to be the regular .CAP format simply Gzipped.
 > Another good reason to have that gzip support in Ethereal.

It's already there - and independent of file extension, too. Give it a 
try with the .CAZ file.

 > 
 > Perhaps this is where you got the idea?  If not, it sure works out well!
 > 
 > =====================================
 > Tim Farley
 > Software Engineer
 > tfarley@xxxxxxx
 > 
 > Internet Security Systems, Inc.
 > (678) 443-6000 / Direct Dial (678) 443-6189 / fax (678) 443-6479
 > http://www.iss.net
 > 
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 > =====================================

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