[Click] FromDump format

[Harald Schiöberg]

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María Gómez wrote:
> Hello clickers!!
> 
> I have a couple of questions about the FromDump element:
> 
> 1- I
> have captured the traffic with tcpdump and wireshark and with 'FromDevice(ath0)-> ToDump(capture.dump)' (i use .dump and .cap),
> but I don't know if the file
> format is correct. That is, the format must be in some specific way? 

FromDump uses pcap format[1], which is a binary format containing some
meta-data and the literal packets , use tcpdump -w to write pcap files

> For example:
> 'time' IP 1.0.0.1.1234 2.0.0.2.1234 : UDP, length 80

this is an ascii pretty print, but no dump format

> 2- Why not print IPPrint element? My configuration:

because it again gives you some pretty print, but no pcap file

harald

1) e.g. http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LibpcapFileFormat


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