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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Filtering a very large capture file

From: Seymour Dupa <grumpy_44134@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:43:55 -0800 (PST)
Wish I had a job where I'd get paid to learn and use
Wireshark.

John

--- Luis Ontanon <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 1/26/07, Seymour Dupa <grumpy_44134@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Can it be exported as text?
> Yes you could but either you loose most of the
> information having each
> packet in a single line  or you have the whole tree
> and the data pane
> that spans several lines where grep is not good
> anymore.
> 
> BTW to have it converted to text you should use
> either tcpdump or
> tshark, the later being unable to handle huge files.
> 
> 
> > --- Stuart MacDonald <stuartm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > From: On Behalf Of Seymour Dupa
> > > > What about 'grep'?
> > >
> > > The capture is libpcap format. grep would need
> to
> > > understand network
> > > packets to be at all effective. This is not a
> simple
> > > line from a text
> > > file situation.
> > >
> > > ..Stu
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