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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] IPv6 Multicast Listener Report

From: Wes <wes_r@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:22:03 -0700 (PDT)
Yeah, that sounds about right. I sent multiple emails trying to get them to make modifications to support Wireshark instead of having it hard coded to run Ethereal. After responding to one response asking why I would want to do this and what was Wireshark, I never got another response... I ended up installing Wireshark and renaming the folder and application to Ethereal in order to be able to launch Wireshark from the capture program... This one is an ST261 running on a Windows 2000 machine, but we do have a lot of ST260's around as well.

From several dealings with them, I got the feeling that the real developers had moved on and they were just providing bare bones support. I was even trying to buy their next version platform, but couldn't get a date or a quote. I eventually gave up.

--- On Thu, 9/18/08, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] IPv6 Multicast Listener Report
To: wes_r@xxxxxxxxx, "Community support list for Wireshark" <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 1:27 PM

On Sep 18, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Wes wrote:

> That's good info. This was captured on Sigtech RF Docsis sniffer
> (not on Ethernet) which can output to a .pcap file format but I'm
> not aware of any way to set this device to record the encapsulation
> type.

Ages ago, I e-mailed somebody there, telling them how to use the
DLT_DOCSIS link-layer type value when it was first introduced. I
never got any reply. That part of Sigtech ended up as part of Daqtron:

http://www.daqtron.com/

and I don't know whether their current product (260C) still

1) includes Ethereal/Wireshark (I seem to remember that it ran
Windows 98, so it doesn't include any up-to-date version of Wireshark)

or

2) doesn't know about DLT_DOCSIS.

(I also told them that they could just make Wireshark read their
native capture file format - which, as I remember, they published, at
the time - but, again, I got no reply.)