yes, I am able to open fhese files using "Open" but this is not enough for my purposes. I would like to be able to put packets with some pre-defined (and troublesome, of course) payload back on the wire and test how some piece of equipment reacts to it.
/wbr
Ariel Burbaickij
You should be able to use "file open" on a .rf5 file no need to do
file import which is used differently as explained earlier.
Regards
Anders
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Guy
Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Thank you for fast response, Guy.
>
>> not all link-layer header types that Wireshark can
handle have corresponding pcap/pcap-ng link-layer header
types - in particular, neither Tektronix rf5 nor HP nettl
X.25 do
>
> So, is it something like work in progress and
pcap/pcap-ng headers are going to be added or is it frozen
for now?
Neither.
The list of link-layer header types is not frozen, but there
is not, and probably never will be, an official tcpdump.org project or Wireshark to add
particular link-layer header types; new types are added when
somebody sends a request for a type to tcpdump-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
and the request is accepted.
The current list, and instructions on how to add values, are
at
What's the underlying link-layer type for the packets in your
rf5 file?
What might be called for here is an *export* option to strip
off metadata that's neither needed nor wanted by particular
programs, converting encapsulations with no corresponding
pcap/pcap-ng link-layer header type to one of those link-layer
header types.
>> "Open packet hex dump text file",
>
> Let us try to work backwards here -- what is it
actually supposed to do?
Let the user read a text file containing raw packet data in
hex-dump form without requiring them to go to the command line
and run text2pcap.
