Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Query: Does ethereal supports any SS7 card orOSPIPE's ?

[Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Amit,

I have tested that half a year ago or so. I do not have to old
version available (I only have the svn version...) but I have
reproduced the problem.

Can someone look at the problem, since I have not looked at that code 
before...

Best regards
Michael

On May 19, 2005, at 12:28 Uhr, Amit Dang wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>     Thanks for the quick response. I am using Ethereal 0.10.9 version. 
> Could
> you please tell on which version of ethereal support for FIFO works 
> fine?
>
> Regards,
> Amit Dang
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Tuexen" <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Ethereal development" <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 3:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Query: Does ethereal supports any SS7 card
> orOSPIPE's ?
>
>
> > Hi Amit,
> >
> > this is a bug in ethereal. It is working with older versions and has
> > to be fixed.
> >
> > Normally you can run
> >
> > tcpdump -w /tmp/fifo
> >
> > and
> >
> > ethereal -i /tmp/fifo
> >
> > and it works.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Michael
> >
> > On May 19, 2005, at 12:15 Uhr, Amit Dang wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Michael,
> > > I tried reading from FIFO but it fails.
> > > Tethereal is able to show the captured data using "tethereal -i
> > > /tmp/datafifo" but ethereal is not able to display the captured
> > > packet.
> > > For detailed information please refer following mail that we posted 
> > > on
> > > ethereal-user list (subject: [Ethereal-users] Tethereal can, Ethereal
> > > cannot)
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > I am using named pipes (FIFO) to read captured data. My problem is
> > > that Tethereal is able to show the captured data using
> > > "tethereal -i /tmp/myfifo"
> > >
> > > but ethereal is not able to display the captured packets. Am using
> > > following command:
> > > "ethereal -i /tmp/myfifo -kl"
> > > Ethereal just says that theres nothing to display as no data has been
> > > captured. I can confirm that its reading the right FIFO as it does
> > > identify a wrong formatted data, whenever I try to write some junk
> > > data (read non-pcap conforming data) on the pipe.
> > >
> > > Following command is being used in both the above cases to write
> > > captured data on FIFO
> > > "cat packets.pcap > /tmp/myfifo" /* myfifo has been created
> > > using "mknod p"*/
> > >
> > > Ironically, the file "packets.pcap" has been created after capturing
> > > data on my host's network interface using *Ethereal* itself.
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Thanks in Advance,
> > > Amit Dang_______________________________________________
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