Re: [Wireshark-dev] Sample Captures from wireshark repository

2012-02-16 Thread Guy Harris
On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:07 PM, vijay wrote: > Thanks for the response. Yeah i got it wrong, it was "Unrecognized libpcap > format" . The file I downloaded has .cap extension which I believe is not > pcap format. The suffix does not inherently indicate the file format, but pcap files are gener

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Sample Captures from wireshark repository

2012-02-16 Thread vijay
Thanks for the response. Yeah i got it wrong, it was "Unrecognized libpcap format" . The file I downloaded has .cap extension which I believe is not pcap format. And since i am capturing in pcap format (not pcapng) it is working fine with pipes. Thanks again. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Gu

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Sample Captures from wireshark repository

2012-02-16 Thread Guy Harris
On Feb 16, 2012, at 8:16 PM, vijay wrote: > I downloaded some captures from the Sample Captures page tried reading it in > wireshark through a pipe. > I reported "invalid libpcap format" error. I don't see "invalid libpcap format" anywhere in the Wireshark 1.6.x source; that is probably *NOT*

[Wireshark-dev] Sample Captures from wireshark repository

2012-02-16 Thread vijay
Hi, I downloaded some captures from the Sample Captures page tried reading it in wireshark through a pipe. I reported "invalid libpcap format" error. But when i directly open the file using wireshark it reads fine. I dont understand why this happen? Isnt the file having the global header? I tried