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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2001-12-04 22:37:56 +0000
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2001-12-04 22:37:56 +0000
commite52dab213d364f021d20a204e360c35d96a1201d (patch)
treee77ef30b0f7621808a6b309d54f30f32a812f41a
parentbc225c2a874b373b588ff6a8000f36f0efc67388 (diff)
Update the manual pages to reflect the addition of support for reading
and writing Visual Networks traffic capture files. svn path=/trunk/; revision=4329
-rw-r--r--doc/editcap.pod19
-rw-r--r--doc/ethereal.pod.template13
-rw-r--r--doc/mergecap.pod18
-rw-r--r--doc/tethereal.pod.template18
4 files changed, 36 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/doc/editcap.pod b/doc/editcap.pod
index d218d9f0f0..acd8e7eadb 100644
--- a/doc/editcap.pod
+++ b/doc/editcap.pod
@@ -30,13 +30,13 @@ WAN/LAN analyzer, B<Lucent/Ascend> router debug output, HP-UX's
B<nettl>, the dump output from B<Toshiba's> ISDN routers, the output
from B<i4btrace> from the ISDN4BSD project, the output in B<IPLog>
format from the Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System, B<pppd logs>
-(pppdump format), the output from VMS's B<TCPIPtrace> utility, and the
-text output from the B<DBS Etherwatch> VMS utility. There is no need to
-tell B<Editcap> what type of file you are reading; it will determine the
-file type by itself. B<Editcap> is also capable of reading any of these
-file formats if they are compressed using gzip. B<Editcap> recognizes
-this directly from the file; the '.gz' extension is not required for this
-purpose.
+(pppdump format), the output from VMS's B<TCPIPtrace> utility, the text
+output from the B<DBS Etherwatch> VMS utility, and traffic capture files
+from Visual Networks' software. There is no need to tell B<Editcap>
+what type of file you are reading; it will determine the file type by
+itself. B<Editcap> is also capable of reading any of these file formats
+if they are compressed using gzip. B<Editcap> recognizes this directly
+from the file; the '.gz' extension is not required for this purpose.
By default, it writes the capture file in B<libpcap> format, and writes
all of the packets in the capture file to the output file. The B<-F>
@@ -45,8 +45,9 @@ file; it can write the file in B<libpcap> format (standard B<libpcap>
format, a modified format used by some patched versions of B<libpcap>,
the format used by Red Hat Linux 6.1, or the format used by SuSE Linux
6.3), B<snoop> format, uncompressed B<Sniffer> format, Microsoft
-B<Network Monitor> 1.x format, and the format used by Windows-based
-versions of the B<Sniffer> software.
+B<Network Monitor> 1.x format, the format used by Windows-based versions
+of the B<Sniffer> software, and the format used by Visual Networks'
+software.
A list of packet numbers can be specified on the command line; the
packets with those numbers will I<not> be written to the capture file,
diff --git a/doc/ethereal.pod.template b/doc/ethereal.pod.template
index d78f59d915..f1d0f222d0 100644
--- a/doc/ethereal.pod.template
+++ b/doc/ethereal.pod.template
@@ -46,12 +46,13 @@ router debug output, HP-UX's B<nettl>, the dump output from B<Toshiba's>
ISDN routers, the output from B<i4btrace> from the ISDN4BSD project, the
output in B<IPLog> format from the Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection
System, B<pppd logs> (pppdump format), the output from VMS's
-B<TCPIPtrace> utility, and the text output from the B<DBS Etherwatch>
-VMS utility. There is no need to tell B<Ethereal> what type of file you
-are reading; it will determine the file type by itself. B<Ethereal> is
-also capable of reading any of these file formats if they are compressed
-using gzip. B<Ethereal> recognizes this directly from the file; the
-'.gz' extension is not required for this purpose.
+B<TCPIPtrace> utility, the text output from the B<DBS Etherwatch> VMS
+utility, and traffic capture files from Visual Networks' software.
+There is no need to tell B<Ethereal> what type of file you are reading;
+it will determine the file type by itself. B<Ethereal> is also capable
+of reading any of these file formats if they are compressed using gzip.
+B<Ethereal> recognizes this directly from the file; the '.gz' extension
+is not required for this purpose.
Like other protocol analyzers, B<Ethereal>'s main window shows 3 views
of a packet. It shows a summary line, briefly describing what the
diff --git a/doc/mergecap.pod b/doc/mergecap.pod
index b805d32b9b..70e009a303 100644
--- a/doc/mergecap.pod
+++ b/doc/mergecap.pod
@@ -27,12 +27,13 @@ B<Lucent/Ascend> router debug output, HP-UX's B<nettl>, the dump output
from B<Toshiba's> ISDN routers, the output from B<i4btrace> from the
ISDN4BSD project, the output in B<IPLog> format from the Cisco Secure
Intrusion Detection System, B<pppd logs> (pppdump format), the output
-from VMS's B<TCPIPtrace> utility, and the text output from the
-B<DBS Etherwatch> VMS utility. There is no need to tell B<Mergecap> what
-type of file you are reading; it will determine the file type by itself.
-B<Mergecap> is also capable of reading any of these file formats if they
-are compressed using gzip. B<Mergecap> recognizes this directly from the
-file; the '.gz' extension is not required for this purpose.
+from VMS's B<TCPIPtrace> utility, the text output from the B<DBS
+Etherwatch> VMS utility, and traffic capture files from Visual Networks'
+software. There is no need to tell B<Mergecap> what type of file you
+are reading; it will determine the file type by itself. B<Mergecap> is
+also capable of reading any of these file formats if they are compressed
+using gzip. B<Mergecap> recognizes this directly from the file; the
+'.gz' extension is not required for this purpose.
By default, it writes the capture file in B<libpcap> format, and writes
all of the packets in both input capture files to the output file. The
@@ -41,8 +42,9 @@ capture file; it can write the file in B<libpcap> format (standard
B<libpcap> format, a modified format used by some patched versions of
B<libpcap>, the format used by Red Hat Linux 6.1, or the format used by
SuSE Linux 6.3), B<snoop> format, uncompressed B<Sniffer> format,
-Microsoft B<Network Monitor> 1.x format, and the format used by
-Windows-based versions of the B<Sniffer> software.
+Microsoft B<Network Monitor> 1.x format, the format used by
+Windows-based versions of the B<Sniffer> software, and the format used
+by Visual Networks' software.
Packets from the input files are merged in chronological order based on
each frame's timestamp, unless the B<-a> flag is specified. B<Mergecap>
diff --git a/doc/tethereal.pod.template b/doc/tethereal.pod.template
index 60ba792155..a86183a535 100644
--- a/doc/tethereal.pod.template
+++ b/doc/tethereal.pod.template
@@ -44,13 +44,13 @@ B<Lucent/Ascend> router debug output, HP-UX's B<nettl>, the dump output
from B<Toshiba's> ISDN routers, the output from B<i4btrace> from the
ISDN4BSD project, the output in B<IPLog> format from the Cisco Secure
Intrusion Detection System, B<pppd logs> (pppdump format), the output
-from VMS's B<TCPIPtrace> utility, and the text output from the
-B<DBS Etherwatch> VMS utility. There is no need to tell B<Tethereal>
-what type of file you are reading; it will determine the file type by
-itself. B<Tethereal> is also capable of reading any of these file
-formats if they are compressed using gzip. B<Tethereal> recognizes this
-directly from the file; the '.gz' extension is not required for this
-purpose.
+from VMS's B<TCPIPtrace> utility, the text output from the B<DBS
+Etherwatch> VMS utility, and traffic capture files from Visual Networks'
+software. There is no need to tell B<Tethereal> what type of file you
+are reading; it will determine the file type by itself. B<Tethereal> is
+also capable of reading any of these file formats if they are compressed
+using gzip. B<Tethereal> recognizes this directly from the file; the
+'.gz' extension is not required for this purpose.
If the B<-w> flag is not specified, B<Tethereal> prints a decoded form
of the packets it captures or reads; otherwise, it writes those packets
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ to write the file; it can write the file in B<libpcap> format (standard
B<libpcap> format, a modified format used by some patched versions of
B<libpcap>, or the format used by Red Hat Linux 6.1), B<snoop> format,
uncompressed B<Sniffer> format, Microsoft B<Network Monitor> 1.x format,
-and the format used by Windows-based versions of the B<Sniffer>
-software.
+the format used by Windows-based versions of the B<Sniffer>
+software, and the format used by Visual Networks' software.
Read filters in B<Tethereal>, which allow you to select which packets
are to be decoded or written to a file, are very powerful; more fields