But isn't that the purpose of editcap? I'm only talking about
removing it from mergecap.
-hadriel
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Pascal Quantin
<pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Le 14 août 2015 6:18 PM, "Hadriel Kaplan" <the.real.hadriel@xxxxxxxxx> a
> écrit :
>>
>> Howdy,
>> Due to some reported bugs and inconsistencies, I'm refactoring the
>> capture file merging code in mergecap.c and file.c's cf_merge_files()
>> - basically gutting them and putting most of the logic into a common
>> "merge_files()" function in merge.c.
>>
>> While merging their function code logic, I noticed that mergecap lets
>> the user set the frame encap type to use for the new output file, with
>> a '-T' option. That seems completely useless to me, since you can't
>> really change the encap type of what was in the original capture
>> files; nor does mergecap seem to do so either, nor does it filter/save
>> only those packet encap types, nor verify that the input files had
>> that, nor really anything useful - all it appears it can accomplish is
>> to produce invalid output files.
>>
>> Does anyone mind if I remove the '-T' option from mergecap?
>>
>
> Hi Hadriel,
>
> Please do not remove this option. It allows to fix wrong pcap files
> generated by other tools (see bug 11425 for example).
>
> Cheers,
> Pascal.
>
>
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