Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] New User - Want to format hex packets for Ethereal

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From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 20:34:00 +1100
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 04:28:34PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> > I want to be able to import my own interface dumps which are currently in a 
> > raw hex format into Ethereal.  Is there a utility that will do this or a 
> > simple file format that I could format my data?
> 
> If you were to put, at the beginning of the file, a header consisting
> of:

Alternatively, use text2pcap to convert a hex dump into tcpdump format.

I have written perl scripts to convert from a variety of custom
text dump formats into something text2pcap can read. Works really well.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@xxxxxxxxxx> <hamish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>