Ethereal can convert from one cap format to another.

[Richard Sharpe]

Hi,

At 08:42 AM 12/20/99 +1100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at samba.org>
wrote:
>have you got netmon 2.x yet?  it's trivially similar to netmon 1.x.

We read NetMon 2.x, but don't yet write it.

>On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> for those who have not tried Ethereal yet, it has the ability to convert
>> from one format to another.
>> 
>> The latest release, 0.7.9, can save in different formats, and also has a
>> small tool, editpcap, that can convert from one of many formats to a select
>> number of output formats, including NetMon 1.x, libpcap, etc formats.  The
>> help flag will tell you what formats it can handle.
>> 
>> This is very useful for conveting to a format that deals with the packets
>> you are interested in.
>> 
>> We have already found problems with the Linux NFS code, as it generates
>> packets that three tools cannot grok.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards
>> -------
>> Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com, Master Linux Administrator :-),
>> Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
>> Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
>> Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course
>> 
>
>

Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com, Master Linux Administrator :-),
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course