Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] parsing the whole dir using ethereal for the error checking
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Nehal Shah wrote:
> Hi All-
>
> I have been using ethereal for sometime.. Here is what I want to do.
>
> I have a dir in which there r 100 .enc files (capture files). I do not want
> to look at each one on of those files and figure out whether each packet
> meets CRC PASS or not according to ethereal. I would rather modify ethereal
> so when it has CRC error it tells me "Filename XXXX has YYYY CRC errors"
> etc. so I would be interested in doing something like.
>
> (1) Parse .enc file using ethereal.
> (2) When ethereal says bad/good CRC dump that information into a file.
> (3) Parse that file later on to find out how many packets according to
> ethereal have *bad checksum* and how many have *good checksum*.
> (4) I want to show that information to the user.
>
>
>
> I do not know hether eathereal can let me do something like this or not. If
> it does please tell me how can I do that. If not then what are the steps I
> will have to follow for modifying eathereal per my requirement.
>
> I have downloaded ethereal source from "
> <ftp://ftp.ethereal.com/pub/ethereal/>
> ftp://ftp.ethereal.com/pub/ethereal/distribution/ethereal-0.9.8.tar.gz";
>
>
> Also let me know where do I get other development tips like builiding the
> code, testsing it etc..
Please don't post HTML mail to this mailing list.
There are tips in the doc directory. You may obtain the source from
www.ethereal.com.
Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
