Guy Harris wrote the following on 10/31/05 19:32:
Guy Harris wrote:
Martin Warnes wrote:
btw. I don't know if I mentioned this before but Ethereal is able to
handle SYSTCPDA formatted capture files from the IBM zSeries
(OS/390) without problems, might be worth mentioning this on the
website.
The page at
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/network/commserver/downloads/systcpda.txt
says:
7) Add SNIFFER(TCPDUMP) to write packet trace records in TCPDUMP
format.
In addition, their default format appears to be Sniffer format (at
least from what the help file says; I'm somewhat surprised that the
help file was a Windows-format text file, i.e. ASCII with CR/LF at the
ends of lines, rather than some variable-length record thing in
EBCDIC, as I assume it's a help file for z/OS); Ethereal should also
be able to read those (if not, that's a bug, and should get fixed if
possible).
Thanks Guy,
That's given me a starting point and a better understanding of what is
required. I'll also look at handling other types such as EBCDIC and
possibly raw packet captures as well.
The ASCII option on the SEND or FTP command used to upload the HELP file
should convert the CR/LF to a X'25' EBCDIC line end, it effectively then
becomes a plain text Fixed 80 byte file which can be displayed in the
TSO Help system. If the file is uploaded from a Unix system it might be
a problem as only the LF will be converted leaving a surplus CR lying
around, but TSO just ends up displaying that as a "block" non display
character I think so it should just look odd.
I'll speak to one of our AS/400 product developers and see if he can
have a word with IBM about adopting libpcap format, you never know.
Thanks .. Martin
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