Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [Ethereal-users] "Files from that network type can't be saved

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From: Vincas Ciziunas <winkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:58:03 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Guy Harris wrote:

> 
> 	1) that capture file format doesn't support captures of that
> 	   link-layer type (e.g., X.25 in libpcap)
> 
> or
> 
> 	2) it does support captures of that link-layer type, but the
> 	   Wiretap library doesn't have code to write captures of that
> 	   link-layer type in that capture file format (because it
> 	   hasn't been written, either because, in turn, nobody's had
> 	   the time to write it, or because we don't know how to write
> 	   out captures in that format for that link-layer type).
> 

But neither of these are the case with any of the various 802 protocols,
are they?