Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Capture file format conversion problem.

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From: "Georgios Papadopoulos" <g17mayo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 13:39:41 +0100
All,

I have developed a Win32 application that uses the WinPcap driver to capture files from a live network and read libpcap format capture files.

I want to read with my app some capture files that are formatted in a generic network sniffer (DOS) format, so I used the editcap utility from ethereal to convert the format to libpcap, although tcpdump and windump are able to read the converted file my application can't.

I tried to read the converted file with both tcpdump and windump and produce a second capture file using the -w option. My application was now able to read the file generated from tcpdump but not the one from windump. Does anyone have any idea, why is this happening?

Thanks very much in advance.

Georgios

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