[Robert McConnell <rmcconne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good morning,

I have been using a product called NetProbe from NetPlus to capture network 
traffic in a QA environment. This is an MSDOS package, and for several 
reasons remains a good choice for monitoring and capturing network traffic. 
However, NetProbe is weak on the analysis end and NetPlus seems to have 
disappeared, at least from the Internet.

I am looking at converting the NetProbe trace files into the raw tcpdump 
format so that I can import them into Ethereal. Looking at the files 
themselves, they contain a binary copy of each packet with a 20 byte header 
containing the packet length, snapshot length and an MS-DOS time stamp 
(milliseconds since 1/1/80). So I think the conversion will be rather 
simple to do in either Perl or C.

Has anyone built this wheel? Or does anyone have a snippet of code that 
will convert MS-DOS time stamps into Unix time? This is the one piece I 
don't have worked out.

Thank you,

Bob McConnell
N2SPP