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@@ -79,6 +79,14 @@ snoop, Shomiti, LANalyzer, Network Monitor, AIX's iptrace, RADCOM's WAN/LAN Analyzer, Lucent/Ascend access products, HP-UX's nettl, and Toshiba's ISDN routers. +In addition, it can read gzipped versions of any of these files, +automatically, if you have the zlib library available when compiling +Ethereal. Ethereal needs a modern version of zlib to work; version +1.1.3 is known to work. Earlier versions are missing some functions +that Ethereal needs and won't work. "./configure" should detect if you +have the proper zlib version available. You can alwasy use +"./configure --disable-zlib" to explicitly disable zlib support. + Although Ethereal can read AIX iptrace files, the documentation on AIX's iptrace packet-trace command is sparse. The 'iptrace' command starts a daemon which you must kill in order to stop the trace. Through |