Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Processing Text Output

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:47:56 +0100
On 1/31/06, Steve Licking <slicking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi, I have several captures of the text output of tethereal (basically
> tethereal -V >textCaptureFile).  The text is nicely formatted and has been
> easy enough to parse so far, but I would like to convert them into the
> libpcap format which Ethereal can read.
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> However I have had little luck in finding a way to do this.  The closest
> I've found is text2pcap, however since the text captures I have only give
> hex output for the packet data section, much of the information would be
> lost.
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> Are there any utilities capable of parsing the text output of Ethereal and
> converting it into the libpcap format?
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No, I think without the hexbytes there is no feasable way to do it

What you can do is to capture directly into a libpcap file using
tethereal's "-w filename.cap" option.


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> Thanks for your help
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