Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Reading Ascend-Capture-Files

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:54:30 -0500 (CDT)
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Wiesboeck Peter wrote:

> Hallo,
> I am using Ethereal (0.8.16) on an NT-Box.
> When ever I open an Ascend-Router-Capture file I get the 
> message
>  The capture file appears to be damaged or corrupt
> But the file can be opened with any editor without 
> any problem.
> 
> Have anyone an idea?

What does the capture output look like?  Ethereal's Lucent/Ascend capture
parser can handle output that looks like this:

   Example 'wandsess' output data:
   
RECV-iguana:241:(task: B02614C0, time: 1975432.85) 49 octets @ 8003BD94
  [0000]: FF 03 00 3D C0 06 CA 22 2F 45 00 00 28 6A 3B 40 
  [0010]: 00 3F 03 D7 37 CE 41 62 12 CF 00 FB 08 20 27 00 
  [0020]: 50 E4 08 DD D7 7C 4C 71 92 50 10 7D 78 67 C8 00 
  [0030]: 00 
XMIT-iguana:241:(task: B04E12C0, time: 1975432.85) 53 octets @ 8009EB16
  [0000]: FF 03 00 3D C0 09 1E 31 21 45 00 00 2C 2D BD 40 
  [0010]: 00 7A 06 D8 B1 CF 00 FB 08 CE 41 62 12 00 50 20 
  [0020]: 29 7C 4C 71 9C 9A 6A 93 A4 60 12 22 38 3F 10 00 
  [0030]: 00 02 04 05 B4 

    Example 'wdd' output data:

Date: 01/12/1990.  Time: 12:22:33
Cause an attempt to place call to 14082750382
WD_DIALOUT_DISP: chunk 2515EE type IP.
(task: 251790, time: 994953.28) 44 octets @ 2782B8
  [0000]: 00 C0 7B 71 45 6C 00 60 08 16 AA 51 08 00 45 00
  [0010]: 00 2C 66 1C 40 00 80 06 53 F6 AC 14 00 18 CC 47
  [0020]: C8 45 0A 31 00 50 3B D9 5B 75 00 00

It's possible that Lucent changed the output slightly, which would confuse
the parser.


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