Re: gzip and tcpdump...

[Guy Harris <guy () netapp com>]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:50:59PM +0100, rmkml wrote:
> Why gzip is not included in tcpdump ?

Because it just relies on libpcap to write capture files.

> or in libpcap directly ? (via zlib)

That could probably be done, given that libpcap files are written purely
sequentially.  Having libpcap *require* zlib would probably not be a
good idea (Ethereal, for example, supports reading gzipped files if you
have zlib, but if you have a system without zlib, Ethereal can still be
compiled, it just can't read gzipped files).
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