Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] ethereal to csv

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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:45:51 +0100
Hi Guy et al,

	> This works on Windows NT with Perl V5.6 but is probably easily
ported to any
	> other system. It is highly dependant on the syntax of the -V
output, so will
	> probably not work should Ethereal developers tweak the output
format.

	The correct answer there is probably to add a new printout format to
	Ethereal and Tethereal, which would look something like:

		frame:
		 frame.time: May 19, 1999 17:48:39.708517000
		 frame.time_delta: 0.000000000
		 frame.time_relative: 0.000000000
	 frame
<snip>

That output looks much easier to parse. Very nice!

To save CPU cycles when grepping tethereal traces on the fly it would be
nice to be able to specificy a maximum level of decode for -V output
syntax(es?). (eg MAC only; MAC and IP or IPX; MAC,IP and TCP/UDP etc; full
header but no binary; everything).

Also it would be nice to allow multiple "Edit/Preferences/Columns" formats,
and so make it possible to have tethereal output a trace with a particular
format and delimater. This would hopefully make my Eth2CSV script redundant.

All very nice. Perhaps I should pluck up the courage to look at the source
code and see what would be required... 

Hmmm

Alistair
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