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Re: ISDN Layer 3 decode
From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:01:55 -0700
On Oct 23, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Keith French wrote:
Please can you give me some idea of the syntax to use with text2pcap - I cannot see anything in the help referring to a "DLT_ value" (in fact I'm not sure what a DLT_ is anyway).
I wasn't sure what terminology was being used; it turns out the text2pcap man page uses the terminology I prefer, which is "link-layer type value" (well, actually, I prefer "link-layer header type value", as it specifies what headers appear at the beginning of the packet, regardless of the actual link-layer type): $ man text2pcap ... −l Specify the link‐layer type of this packet. Default is Ethernet (1). See net/bpf.h for the complete list of possible encapsulations. Note that this option should be used if your dump is a complete hex dump of an encapsulated packet and you wish to specify the exact type of encapsulation. Example: −l 7 for ARCNet packets. (I need to update that to say "see http://www.tcpdump.org/linktypes.html for the complete list of possible encapsulations.) They've become known as DLT_ values, from the #defines used in net/bpf.h; however, in some cases, the actual value in the file is different from the DLT_ #define, thanks to various BSDs picking different numerical values for the same link-layer header type - tcpdump.org assigned a separate link-layer header type value, for use in capture files, for that link-layer header type, so that a file produced on one OS could be read on another OS.) In any case, the syntax for that would be "-l 203" as a command-line argument to text2pcap. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Re: ISDN Layer 3 decode Keith French (Oct 27)
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- Re: ISDN Layer 3 decode Keith French (Oct 28)
- Re: ISDN Layer 3 decode Guy Harris (Oct 28)
- Re: ISDN Layer 3 decode Keith French (Oct 30)
- Re: ISDN Layer 3 decode Guy Harris (Oct 30)
- Re: ISDN Layer 3 decode Keith French (Oct 31)
- Re: ISDN Layer 3 decode Guy Harris (Oct 23)
- Re: ISDN Layer 3 decode Keith French (Oct 23)
- Re: ISDN Layer 3 decode Guy Harris (Oct 23)