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| author | Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@gmail.com> | 2018-09-21 15:12:51 -0400 |
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| committer | Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com> | 2018-09-24 04:08:40 +0000 |
| commit | 5ec8ac1398745ee1e899f4ff6ebe9aa065a3b875 (patch) | |
| tree | d8740430c41ca60dc244f1c98afae98e1f34f8f1 /README.md | |
| parent | 1847b7d309b7b6fa1e33f1a415a820d19072bd30 (diff) | |
Wiretap isn't meant to be a packet-capture library [any more].
Wiretap was originally being writen to be a packet-capture library which
might eventually replace libpcap but that's no longer the case: it's now
meant to be a library for accessing multiple types of files.
As such, don't describe it in the README as a packet-capture-library-to-be;
in fact since it's really internal to Wireshark don't mention it at all.
Don't discuss the fact that ancient (pre-2003) versions of zlib don't work
for Wireshark's purposes.
Change-Id: I2387d0ecc65a66c21dd7db3a38b8fee7d32add7f
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/29786
Reviewed-by: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
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@@ -84,20 +84,14 @@ option and interface feature. Multiple File Types ------------------- -The wiretap library is a packet-capture library currently under -development parallel to Wireshark. In the future it is hoped that -wiretap will have more features than libpcap, but wiretap is still in -its infancy. However, wiretap is used in wireshark for its ability -to read multiple file types. See the Wireshark man page or the -Wireshark User's Guide for a list of supported file formats. - -In addition, it can read gzipped versions of any of those files -automatically if you have the zlib library available when compiling -Wireshark. Wireshark needs a modern version of zlib to be able to use -zlib to read gzipped files; version 1.1.3 is known to work. Versions -prior to 1.0.9 are missing some functions that Wireshark needs and won't -work. CMake will automatically use zlib if it is found on your system. -You can disable zlib support by running `cmake -DENABLE_ZLIB=OFF`. +Wireshark can read packets from a number of different file types. See +the Wireshark man page or the Wireshark User's Guide for a list of +supported file formats. + +Wireshark can transparently read gzipped versions of any of those files if +zlib was available when Wireshark was compiled. CMake will automatically +use zlib if it is found on your system. You can disable zlib support by +running `cmake -DENABLE_ZLIB=OFF`. Although Wireshark can read AIX iptrace files, the documentation on AIX's iptrace packet-trace command is sparse. The `iptrace` command |