[Marco van den Bovenkamp <marco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:

> My question still stands.
> Why would anyone want to read a capture into Sniffer for post-capture
> analysis?
>
> Its not like it can do any particularly useful analysis of CIFS or NFS
> anyway.

So what? The times I had to send a capture file to our Ethernet switch 
support enigineer the problem had nothing at all to do with either. But 
the guy happened to use Sniffer Pro to look at my captures.

And it was *his* opinion I wanted, not that of whatever program he used.

> If the tech support engineer is not using ethereal already there is no point
> in sending the capture to him/her.
>
> My opinion is that ethereal should drop the support to write files in any
> other format than pcap.
> If other tools have problem with that it is their problem not ethereals.

Wow. Bit cranky, aren't we?

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		Regards,

			Marco.