Re: where is WTAP_ENCAP type 80 (K12) in Import menue/or why is it not there?

[Ariel Burbaickij <ariel.burbaickij () gmail com>]

> Wireshark's development deliberately does *not* limit itself to what
libpcap can read.
Yes, this became clearly apparent also to me now :-)


/wbr
Ariel Burbaickij




On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Mar 4, 2013, at 10:24 PM, Ariel Burbaickij <ariel.burbaickij () gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > I have several captures. One of them is definitely in rf5 format,
>
> ...which means it definitely is given the WTAP_ENCAP_ value of
> WTAP_ENCAP_K12, not WTAP_ENCAP_MTP2.
>
> > another one is definitely in pcap format.
>
> ...which means it definitely is *not* given the WTAP_ENCAP_ value of
> WTAP_ENCAP_K12, although it could be given the WTAP_ENCAP_ value of
> WTAP_ENCAP_MTP2.
>
> > What I meant is  that from looking  at supported DLT_TYPEs and then
> WTAP_ENCAP (sets of supported encapsulations are different) it appeared to
> me that development of wireshark and tcereplay happens totally independent
> from each other -- previously I thought/hoped that it happens in more
> coordinated way.
>
> Nope.  That would be like hoping that the development of Wireshark and
> snoop, or the development of Wireshark and tcpdump, or the development of
> Wireshark and any *other* libpcap-based application, happened in a more
> coordinated way.
>
> Wireshark's development deliberately does *not* limit itself to what
> libpcap can read.
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