Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] comparing two files

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From: Earl Eiland <eee@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:05:51 -0700
Thanks, Luis.  This should work quite nicely.

Earl

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 09:04, LEGO wrote:
> perl's Net::Pcap  and NetPacket can turn out much more useful for that purpose,
> supposing the Firewall does not modify the packets (which it might do).
> 
> the attached script reads the packets, crops the ethernet header and
> writes an hexdump one packet per line.
> After that,  you feed diff with both output files.
> 
> It's not realy a detailed application but I've used it for routers in the past.
> 
> Luis
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:54:25 -0700, Earl Eiland <eee@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have to compare two files, one being packets going onto a firewall,
> > and one packets leaving the firewall.  I then need to create a new file
> > of packets dropped by said firewall.
> > 
> > I presume this ability is not built into Ethereal.  Where can I find
> > information on Ethereal's file structure, so I can build a parser?
> > 
> > Earl Eiland
> > 
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