Re: Merging capture files of different link layer type

[vijay <vijay.prasanth () gmail com>]

Thanks a lot. the command line tool works,
but is it possible to merge the pcapng files from the GNU *merge *option
under File tab??

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo () di uminho pt>wrote:

> On 2012-01-30 00:20, vijay wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My problem is to merge two files of different link layer types.
> >
> > I tried merging 2 pcap files of same link type into a pcap file and
> > it succeeded.
> > But when i try to merge 2 pcapng files of same link type into a pcapng
> > file i got the error "*Wireshark can't save this capture in that
> format.*"
> > Could some one please tell why the above error occurs? Also does
> > mergecap has support for pcapng file format ?
>
> You need to manually specify an encapsulation type. See:
> http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/PcapNg#Merging_pcapng_files
>
> jpo
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