Hi Michael,
Thanks for the quick response. I am using Ethereal 0.10.9 version. Could
you please tell on which version of ethereal support for FIFO works fine?
Regards,
Amit Dang
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Tuexen" <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ethereal development" <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Query: Does ethereal supports any SS7 card
orOSPIPE's ?
> Hi Amit,
>
> this is a bug in ethereal. It is working with older versions and has
> to be fixed.
>
> Normally you can run
>
> tcpdump -w /tmp/fifo
>
> and
>
> ethereal -i /tmp/fifo
>
> and it works.
>
> Best regards
> Michael
>
> On May 19, 2005, at 12:15 Uhr, Amit Dang wrote:
>
> > Hi Michael,
> > I tried reading from FIFO but it fails.
> > Tethereal is able to show the captured data using "tethereal -i
> > /tmp/datafifo" but ethereal is not able to display the captured
> > packet.
> > For detailed information please refer following mail that we posted on
> > ethereal-user list (subject: [Ethereal-users] Tethereal can, Ethereal
> > cannot)
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > I am using named pipes (FIFO) to read captured data. My problem is
> > that Tethereal is able to show the captured data using
> > "tethereal -i /tmp/myfifo"
> >
> > but ethereal is not able to display the captured packets. Am using
> > following command:
> > "ethereal -i /tmp/myfifo -kl"
> > Ethereal just says that theres nothing to display as no data has been
> > captured. I can confirm that its reading the right FIFO as it does
> > identify a wrong formatted data, whenever I try to write some junk
> > data (read non-pcap conforming data) on the pipe.
> >
> > Following command is being used in both the above cases to write
> > captured data on FIFO
> > "cat packets.pcap > /tmp/myfifo" /* myfifo has been created
> > using "mknod p"*/
> >
> > Ironically, the file "packets.pcap" has been created after capturing
> > data on my host's network interface using *Ethereal* itself.
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Thanks in Advance,
> > Amit Dang_______________________________________________
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