Look at the text2pcap program in the wireshark distribution as an example.
You could also use text2pcap. If you can write a program to convert
your XML to a text-file hex-dump, then you can execute text2pcap to
convert that to a pcap file.
--gilbert
On 5/28/08, Hans Glück <hanschris.glueck@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thanks for the reply, but I think I had a false start, sorry. I should describe my problem more detailed...
>
> I have a proprietary program/file (this file contains data from a multiplexer-trace in a GSM device -> the protocol/ packets is based on HDLC). I can export the data out of proprietary file to a XML-file. Wireshark doesn`t understand that format so I have the 3 options posted at the wireshark wiki (PacketInput). Because of my limited time, I think it will be the best way if I´ll choose the way to convert the XML-file to a file which wireshark understands (libpcap). But I do not understand how to convert it, I mean how do I add the global header etc? I will convert it from XML file to *.txt file and then?
>
> This is an example out of the XML file (just for your information)
>
> <Transaction type="OUT" device="1" endpoint="2" status="ACK" speed="FS" time="8.443 704 917">
> <Packet id="OUT" speed="FS" time="8.443 704 917">
> <deviceAddress>1</deviceAddress>
> <endpointNumber>2</endpointNumber>
> <crc5>0x18</crc5>
> </Packet>
> <Packet id="DATA0" speed="FS" time="8.443 707 900">
> <length>10</length>
> <data>F9 07 88 09 61 74 69 0D 85 F9</data>
> <crc16>0x157A</crc16>
> </Packet>
> <Packet id="ACK" speed="FS" time="8.443 718 000"/>
> </Transaction>
>
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----
> Von: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
> An: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Gesendet: Sonntag, den 25. Mai 2008, 18:21:02 Uhr
> Betreff: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Dissector - Read data from file
>
>
> Hans Glück wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I´m writing a dissector but I do not want to read the data live from the network.
>
> The dissector doesn't care where the data comes from.
>
> > I have a file (~60MB) with the data I want to dissect. What should I do that I can read the data from this file (e.g. that the user
> can choose the file he/she want to analyze).
>
> If the file is in any of the many formats Wireshark can read just open it.
> You might want to split the file up before loading it, since it might consume
> your systems memory with state information.
>
> > Regards
> > Chris
>
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