Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Capture file

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From: "Beatriz Silva" <beatriz_hargrave@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 04:57:50 -0500
Thanks Guy !

Now I have found the following files in the tmp directory:

etherXXXX7FmSGU
etherXXXXG21vKA
etherXXXXvVHyuE
etherXXXXzV301P


But I could not understand the data they contain (I openned them in a normal text editor - kwrite) ... In what type of program shoul I open them ? 

I runned the Ethereal again and the first file changed its name. Now I have:

etherXXXX1NzDLX
etherXXXXG21vKA
etherXXXXvVHyuE
etherXXXXzV301P

Do you understand what this numbers and letters after the XXXX mean ? 

Thank you,
Beatriz

----- Original Message -----
From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:49:51 -0700 
To: Beatriz Silva <beatriz_hargrave@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Capture file


> On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 06:53:30AM -0500, Beatriz Silva wrote:
> > Is there a capture file (that is used by GUI Ethereal to show the
> > packet data)?
> 
> I assume you're referring to "live" captures, i.e. captures done in
> Ethereal itself, rather than capture files that you tell Ethereal to
> read (for which the answer is obviously "yes").
> 
> If so, the answer is "yes"; *all* Ethereal captures are in files.
> 
> > What is its name ?
> 
> Live capture files don't have *a* name; they are put in temporary files,
> whose name is generated on a per-capture basis.
> 
> The capture file will typically be in "/tmp" or "/var/tmp" on UNIX, and
> "C:\TEMP" or perhaps, on Windows 2000, in your per-user temporary file
> directory on Windows, although it might be a different directory
> depending on the setting of the TMPDIR environment variable or, on
> Windows, on the setting of the TEMP environment variable.
> 
> The name will begin with "etherXXXX" and have a letter and some digits
> after it.
> 
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