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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>1998-11-18 20:10:30 +0000
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>1998-11-18 20:10:30 +0000
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Multiple File Types
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-The wiretap library is a packet-capture library currently under development
-parallel to ethereal. In the future it is hoped that wiretap will have more
-features than libpcap, but wiretap is still in its infancy. You can compile
-ethereal with the wiretap library by using './configure --with-wiretap'. Using
-wiretap will allow you to read pcap, Sniffer, and LANalyzer trace files, but
-it disables display filters. You can still capture packets from within
-ethereal using libpcap, and therefore use libpcap-style capture filters,
-however.
+The wiretap library is a packet-capture library currently under
+development parallel to ethereal. In the future it is hoped that
+wiretap will have more features than libpcap, but wiretap is still in
+its infancy. You can compile ethereal with the wiretap library by using
+'./configure --with-wiretap'. Using wiretap will allow you to read
+pcap, Sniffer, Sun "snoop", and LANalyzer trace files, but it disables
+display filters. You can still capture packets from within ethereal
+using libpcap, and therefore use libpcap-style capture filters, however.
If you can live without display filters and would like to read non-pcap
capture files, give wiretap a try. If you want to add support for other