On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Herman, Matthew wrote: > We are using Sniffer Distributed Release 4.2. I am also using Ethereal > version 0.9.15 (c) and also reading the users manual guide htm. > What I did was to create my own directory named c:\Matt's captures > It has a drop down box that gives you a bunch of file formats that you can > save captures to. The choices that apply to me are > File type: > Network Associates Sniffer (Dos-Based) > Network Associates Sniffer (Windows based) 1.1 > Network Associated Sniffer (Windows-based) 2.00x > I called network Associates and the tech said to try the first format that > they developed that is .enc he said it is open and most people use it now. > I tried it and it did not work as well as the other two choices. I tried to > force it by naming the file .cap or .enc and still choose from the drop down > list. In the Sniffer distributed when I try to open the file all I get is > the error message that it does not support that format. > Thanks so much for even replying to my first e-mail. Very much appreciated. > I have to be doing something small and basic wrong. I really like Ethereal > and would greatly appreciate any pointers as to what I am doing wrong.
OK, I am not sure, but I have copied Ethereal-Dev. We might get some answers from there about what version we should save the capture in to allow 4.2 to read it. Alternatively, if you can send us a capture from your version of Sniffer, we might be able to add that format. > Thanks again, > Matt Herman > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Sharpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 11:09 AM > To: Herman, Matthew > Subject: Re: Question on Ethereal > > > On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Herman, Matthew wrote: > > > I am trying to use Ethereal to capture packets and save them. I would > > like to display them on our Network Associates Sniffer. I am saving > > them as.cap but when I try to open them with the Sniffer the file type > > is not supported. Do you have any advice on what I am doing wrong? > > You need to save them in the correct format ... File->Save As... and > click on the File Type button, which should show you a couple of Sniffer > Formats. > > What feature in Sniffer do you need? > > Regards > ----- > Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, > sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com > -- Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
