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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] network monitor 3.3 traces cannot be read

From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:25:41 -0500
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:02 AM, noah davids <> wrote:
> I just tried to read a trace created with Microsoft Network Monitor version
> 3.3 using Wireshark version 1.4. All the frames have a Protocol of UNKNOWN
> and Info of "WTAP_ENCAP = 0". The first two frames appear to be Unicode text
> but starting with frame 3 the hex dump shows it to be an IP packet.
>
> "Decode As" is grayed out so I can't even force a decode. Any idea how I can
> read this trace?
>
>
> Noah Davids

Hello,

Can you send an example capture to the list?

I just captured about 30 seconds of traffic using Microsoft Network
Monitor 3.3 and saved it in its default .cap format.  I was able to
open it in Wireshark 1.2.9 without any problems.

-Jason