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authorGerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>2019-02-11 14:24:18 -0800
committerGerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>2019-02-14 23:11:15 +0000
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Convert the FAQ to Asciidoctor and remove old help files.
Convert our self-generating FAQ to Asciidoctor via the following steps: - `help/faq.py > /tmp/faq.html`. - `pandoc -t asciidoc -o docbook/faq.adoc /tmp/faq.html`. - Manually clean up the markup using a text editor. Question and answer content was left intact. Removing or updating obsolete content will have to be done in a separate change. The Asciidoctor project uses the .adoc extension, so start using it here as well. The contents of the "help" directory appear to have been used for offline support in help_url.c, but that functionality was removed in 2008 in 242e3b78bc. Its content is covered in the User's Guide and man pages so remove it. Change-Id: I9060eefe97cfc137f8b414077c30f814379b576a Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/32014 Petri-Dish: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> Tested-by: Petri Dish Buildbot Reviewed-by: Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
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-Wireshark is a GUI network protocol analyzer.
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-It lets you interactively browse packet data from a live network or from a previously saved capture file.
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-See: http://www.wireshark.org for new versions, documentation, ...
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-Wireshark's native capture file format is libpcap format, which is also the format used by tcpdump and various other tools. So Wireshark can read capture files from:
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--libpcap/WinPcap, tcpdump and various other tools using tcpdump's capture format
--snoop and atmsnoop
--Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor captures
--Novell LANalyzer captures
--Microsoft Network Monitor captures
--AIX's iptrace captures
--Cinco Networks NetXRay captures
--Network Associates Windows-based Sniffer captures
--Network General/Network Associates DOS-based Sniffer (compressed or uncompressed) captures
--AG Group/WildPackets/Savvius EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek/EtherHelp/PacketGrabber captures
--RADCOM's WAN/LAN analyzer captures
--Network Instruments Observer version 9 captures
--Lucent/Ascend router debug output
--files from HP-UX's nettl
--Toshiba's ISDN routers dump output
--the output from i4btrace from the ISDN4BSD project
--traces from the EyeSDN USB S0.
--the output in IPLog format from the Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System
--pppd logs (pppdump format)
--the output from VMS's TCPIPtrace/TCPtrace/UCX$TRACE utilities
--the text output from the DBS Etherwatch VMS utility
--Visual Networks' Visual UpTime traffic capture
--the output from CoSine L2 debug
--the output from Accellent's 5Views LAN agents
--Endace Measurement Systems' ERF format captures
--Linux Bluez Bluetooth stack hcidump -w traces
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-There is no need to tell Wireshark what type of file you are reading; it will determine the file type by itself. Wireshark is also capable of reading any of these file formats if they are compressed using gzip. Wireshark recognizes this directly from the file; the '.gz' extension is not required for this purpose.