Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Log file format

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:45:55 -0700 (PDT)
> I'm not sure what you mean by "log". However, ethereal captures packets
> into a temporary file using libpcap.

Well, the "captures" part is done with libpcap, but the "into a
temporary file" part is done with wiretap - but the temporary file is in
libpcap format.

libpcap format is binary, so that's not likely to be useful on a Web
page, unless the only thing one will do with said Web page is download
the capture from it as a binary file.

> Tethereal outputs text. "tethereal -V" outputs lots and lots of text.

One could perhaps have a running *Tethereal* probe continually printing
out dissections of packets as they arrive, and arrange to put that into
a Web page - for example:

	tethereal >>htdocs/netlog.html