Certain Symantec Enterprise Firewall and Raptor firewall versions seems to include a 
special windows port of tcpdump and the following webpage explain a few things about 
that tcpdump version. However not enough information needed to support the captures 
made with that tcpdump version (libpcap files with link layer type 99).
http://www.firetower.com/forum/tcpdump.html

The information on Symantecs homepage is very limited, but indicates that "link layer 
headers are not available" when using
that tcpdump version.

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/entgate.nsf/5000e5ef2ad281c788256bc1005cd7cc/24de6a93de842b8b88256bd0007f9306?OpenDocument

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/entgate.nsf/5000e5ef2ad281c788256bc1005cd7cc/24de6a93de842b8b88256bd0007f9306/$FILE/tcpdump.pdf

It seems that the capture Richard sent 
(http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200304/msg00137.html) contained 
ip-packets with some kind of packet header after the normal libpcap packet header. 
The extra packet header looked the same for all packets in that file (88 AE C8 78 00 
00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ... 00 00 00 00) and it was easy to make an Analyzer 
(http://analyzer.polito.it) LFF-file that just discards those octets and set the link 
layer type to Raw IP. I sent the LFF file to Richard together with a converted capture 
a couple of days ago, and today he confirmed that the tcpdump program came with the 
Raptor firewall.

<-----Original Message-----
<From: Richard Ginski 
<To: Martin Regner
<Date: Monday, April 14, 2003 1:43 PM
<Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Problems Importing TCPDUMP OutputintoEthereal
<
<Yes this is a Raptor firewall. 

I guess that that the Analyzer LFF file I prepared may not work for all captures made 
with the modified SEF/Raptor tcpdump program and I also think it would be good if 
Ethereal could read those files directly, so I wonder if there is anyone that has some 
more information about this modified tcpdump version? 

Regards,
  Martin



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