Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Quick Question for you.

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:21:24 -0800 (PST)
> Is there a way to capture data using tethereal with Network associates
> Windows Based 2.00x format?

Presumably you ultimately mean "is there any way to *write* capture
files that can be read by Sniffers?"

If the files it currently writes aren't readable by Sniffers, the only
way to do so would be to debug the current code into working.

This would require somebody who has Sniffers to spend time with the
code, comparing files that work with the files written by Ethereal, and
trying various things until they get something that the Sniffers *can*
read.

If there is any *complete* documentation on the file formats (sufficient
to allow the files to be written; some Sniffers had some documentation
on the file format, but it didn't describe the format of all the
records, and that wasn't even enough to allow us to write all the code
to *read* those files - we had to do some stuff by experimentation),
that would help.

NOTE: I don't have any Sniffers handy, so I can't be that somebody (not
that I have the time to work on that in any case).