Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] writing non-Ethernet pcapng files

[Michael Tüxen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Aaron,

can you check also with the latest svn version?

Best regards
Michael

On May 21, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Aaron Turner wrote:

> I noticed that 1.0.x versions of wireshark don't support writing
> non-Ethernet pcapng files.  However, other then explicitly forbidding
> it in pcapng_dump_can_write_encap() in wiretap/pcapng.c I can't see
> any reason for this- the link_type field seems to be correctly
> read/written.
>
> I commented out the check, and did a test (Cisco HDLC) and had no
> problem reading a standard pcap file and converting it to pcapng.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
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