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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] 答复: how can i open the package of iris saved

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:01:32 -0800
dxf206_163 wrote:
thanks for your help.
but while i use capinfos, it tell me "capinfos: Can't open e:\untitled.cap:
The file isn't a capture file in a known format", i think ,before wireshark
open a file, it use capinfos to get infomation from file,

No, it doesn't - but Wireshark and capinfos use the same code to read files, so, if Wireshark can't read a file, capinfos can't, either.

As I said in my other mail, we would need to add code that can read Iris files to the library used by Wireshark and capinfos (and TShark and editcap) to read capture files. In order to do that, we'd need the information the FAQ entry mentions, i.e. (quoting the FAQ)

we would either have to have a specification for the file format, or the extensions, sufficient to give us enough information to read the parts of the file relevant to Wireshark, or would need at least one capture file in that format AND a detailed textual analysis of the packets in that capture file (showing packet time stamps, packet lengths, and the top-level packet header) in order to reverse-engineer the file format.

and note also that (again, quoting the FAQ)

there is no guarantee that we will be able to reverse-engineer a capture file format.