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author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2001-12-04 22:37:56 +0000 |
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committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2001-12-04 22:37:56 +0000 |
commit | e52dab213d364f021d20a204e360c35d96a1201d (patch) | |
tree | e77ef30b0f7621808a6b309d54f30f32a812f41a /doc | |
parent | bc225c2a874b373b588ff6a8000f36f0efc67388 (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
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/editcap.pod | 19 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/ethereal.pod.template | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/mergecap.pod | 18 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/tethereal.pod.template | 18 |
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 |