Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] First version of text2pcap is now available

[Ashok Narayanan <ashokn@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 16 May 2001 15:29:18 -0700 (PDT), Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > You may want to update the top level Makefile.nmake file, to build it on
> > > Windows as well.
> > 
> > Okay. I don't have any way to actually do this, so can somebody do a test
> > build on Windows before I check in?
> 
> I could perhaps try it this evening, but I'd have to plug my upstairs
> phone line at home into the modem, configure Windows for dial-up
> networking, and do a 56KB "cvs update" first.
> 
> With any luck, the *other* modem (the one with "Alcatel ADSL 1000" on
> the case) will be working again this Saturday.
> 
> Perhaps somebody else also has a Windows build environment set up?

How are the regular Windows builds done?

> > > If your dump has only IP packets, and no link-layer headers, you could
> > > just make it a DLT_RAW libpcap file, with the "-l" flag.
> > 
> > I didn't know about this feature. Do you think it's worth removing the
support
> > for the fake Ethernet headers altogether? Or should I just make a note in
the
> > documentation? What I really need for my application is a fake IP header.
> 
> I'd just make a note in the documentation; other people might want to
> turn non-IP packets into libpcap files.

Yeah; the ARP case is one example.

-Ashok



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