Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] nettl (HP-UX) file handling

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sid Sid wrote:

> if I was trying to load the nettl file and had a packet with an 
> unsupported network type I've got the message
> "The cupture file has a packet with a network type that Ethereal doesn't 
> support.
> (nettl:subsystem 123 unknown or unsupported)"
> then process finished.
> Will it not be better just add something looks like "unsupported 
> subsystem" to the packet windows or packet details window and go feather ?

In that case, it'd have to choose WTAP_ENCAP_PER_PACKET as the 
encapsulation type, as it couldn't map an unknown subsystem type to any 
known WTAP_ENCAP_ value.