Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] file types for tethereal

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From: "Flowers, Jay" <Jay_Flowers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:29:08 -0500
Thanks Marco

Jay Flowers
Integic Health Care


-----Original Message-----
From: M.C. van den Bovenkamp [mailto:marco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 5:27 PM
To: Guy Harris
Cc: David Kuder; 'Flowers, Jay'; ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] file types for tethereal

Guy Harris wrote:

> That is, of course, a completely different question from
> 
>         I would like to export the file to one that is readable by
>         Optimal; what value should I use for -F?
> 
> as that latter question depends at least as much on what this "Optimal"
> program (whatever it is) can read as on what Ethereal can write; the
> answer to the latter question may be "there is no such value", if the
> "Optimal" program can't read libpcap, snoop, DOS-based Sniffer, Network
> Monitor, or Windows-based Sniffer files.

A quick Google search turned up Optimal Network Monitor from Optimal
Networks, which got swallowed by Compuware last year. It got rolled into
their EcoSYSTEMS suite, looks like.

Looking at
http://www.compuware.com/products/ecosystems/appexpert/detail.htm,
either Snoop or DOS Sniffer ought to work for him.

		Regards,

			Marco.