> This was my thought as well. It looks like TCP packets aren't handled. I was
> just wondering if anybody else has tried ethereal to read nettl trace files
> successfully.
As far as I know, Olivier Abad, the person who contributed the nettl
code, has gotten Ethereal to read at least *some* nettl files
successfully.
The "README.hpux" file on the Ethereal source says:
nettl is used on HP-UX to trace various streams based
subsystems. Ethereal can read nettl files containing IP frames
(NS_LS_IP subsystem) and LAPB frames (SX25L2 subsystem). It has
been tested with files generated on HP-UX 9.04 and 10.20.
Use the following commands to generate a trace (cf. nettl(1M)):
# IP capture. 0x30000000 means PDU in and PDU out :
nettl -tn 0x30000000 -e NS_LS_IP -f tracefile
# X25 capture. You must specify an interface :
nettl -tn 0x30000000 -e SX25l2 -d /dev/x25_0 -f tracefile
# stop capture. subsystem is NS_LS_IP or SX25L2 :
nettl -tf -e subsystem
One may be able to specify "-tn pduin pduout" rather than "-tn
0x30000000"; the nettl man page for HP-UX 10.30 implies that it
should work.
I think he added support for HP-UX 11.00 after that comment was put in.
As the comment says, "Ethereal can read nettl files containing IP frames
(NS_LS_IP subsystem) and LAPB frames (SX25L2 subsystem)." A recent
checking also added "Support for the BASE100 and GSC100BT subsystems",
but I don't know what "-e" flags you'd give to get frames from them -
perhaps "-e BASE100" and "-e GSC100BT". I also don't know what other
command-line flags would be needed.
nettl files containing records from other subsystems can't be read.
> Thats a pity, I only mention this because in the 0.8.18 changelog there is a
> mention of a hpux plugin
> "The release adds IP fragment reassembly, plugin support on HPUX machines,
That's not mentioning an "HP-UX plugin" in the sense of a plugin module
that adds some sort of HP-UX support, it's mentioning that Ethereal now,
on HP-UX, can load plugin packet dissector modules (which are the only
types of plugins Ethereal currently supports).
Ethereal comes with two plugins - for MGCP and the protocol used by the
Gryphon device sold by the Dearborn Group. Those plugins aren't HP-UX
specific - they're just modules that dissect the two protocols in
question.