Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] SS7 ISUP

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:17:22PM +0200, Willem Dekker wrote:
> What our company (mBalance) is doing is the following. 
> Tap the packet from the ss7 stack (lowest level possible), write it to a file. 
> Then have a small perl script to convert this to the pcap format.

Why not either

	1) write to the file in pcap format

or

	2) contribute code to Ethereal to read the format you're writing

and avoid the Perl script step entirely?