Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Omnivorous Shark

From: Michal Labedzki <michal.labedzki@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 14:05:23 +0100
> On Jan 31, 2014, at 11:45 AM, mmann78@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 1. I like the fact that a "workaround" has been created for insufficient heuristics.
> I just hope it doesn't have the unintended consequence of weaker heuristics being created.

created for insufficient heuristics - that is right, but let call it
"feature" rather than "workaround".

Also let think about cases:
1. I think that my file is PCAP, but Wireshark opens cannot open it
--> Broken file
2. I think that my file is PCAP, but Wireshark opens it as MP2T and it
seems that output is not correct --> Broken file?
3. I think that my file is PCAP, but Wireshark opens it as MP2T and it
seems that output is not correct , so I open try to open is as "PCAP",
but Wireshark cannot do that --> File is definitely broken (~0.1% that
there is a bug in Wireshark)
(additional information)

There is a lot of weak format, so I hope have this option is a good
idea. Better to have weak heuristic open routines than cannot open
file at all. I also believe that somewhere exists formats that you
cannot fix heuristic to correctly open them.



Pozdrawiam / Best regards
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Michał Łabędzki, Software Engineer
Tieto Corporation

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