Yeah, that sounds about right. I sent multiple emails trying to get
them to make modifications to support Wireshark instead of having it
hard coded to run Ethereal. After responding to one response asking why
I would want to do this and what was Wireshark, I never got another
response... I ended up installing Wireshark and renaming the folder and
application to Ethereal in order to be able to launch Wireshark from
the capture program... This one is an ST261 running on a Windows 2000
machine, but we do have a lot of ST260's around as well.
From
several dealings with them, I got the feeling that the real developers
had moved on and they were just providing bare bones support. I was
even trying to buy their next version platform, but couldn't get a date
or a quote. I eventually gave up.
--- On Thu, 9/18/08, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] IPv6 Multicast Listener Report
To: wes_r@xxxxxxxxx, "Community support list for Wireshark" <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 1:27 PM
On Sep 18, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Wes wrote:
> That's good info. This was captured on Sigtech RF Docsis sniffer
> (not on Ethernet) which can output to a .pcap file format but I'm
> not aware of any way to set this device to record the encapsulation
> type.
Ages ago, I e-mailed somebody there, telling them how to use the
DLT_DOCSIS link-layer type value when it was first introduced. I
never got any reply. That part of Sigtech
ended up as part of Daqtron:
http://www.daqtron.com/
and I don't know whether their current product (260C) still
1) includes Ethereal/Wireshark (I seem to remember that it ran
Windows 98, so it doesn't include any up-to-date version of Wireshark)
or
2) doesn't know about DLT_DOCSIS.
(I also told them that they could just make Wireshark read their
native capture file format - which, as I remember, they published, at
the time - but, again, I got no reply.)
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