Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] decoding packets without lower layer headers

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From: Banibrata Dutta <banibrata.dutta@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:29:50 +0530
well, i think "text2pcap" can do this upto the UDP/TCP level... i
guess i need to extend this to cover SCTP, and add another layer on
top, to enable my application trace to be decodable by ethereal.

- bd

On 9/2/05, Banibrata Dutta <banibrata.dutta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi,
> 
> is there a way to decode some higher layer packets from say a hexdump
> or binary dump, when the lower layer headers/trailers are missing, but
> we explicitly select the protocol to be decoded ?
> 
> of course a brute force approach is to create dummy lower layer
> headers and then use regular decoding, but i am trying to avoid that.
> 
> regards,
> bdutta
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