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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>1999-03-01 20:35:33 +0000
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>1999-03-01 20:35:33 +0000
commitc8643cdee6739e24244ac6113befbc9297376f5a (patch)
tree360c87d95426a4a704948a076b618e742ff47025 /wiretap/README
parentcd5af6645bee227735150932bade93ca3b067085 (diff)
Fix a typo, and note that we can read Token Ring captures from Sniffer
Basic/Windows Sniffer Pro. svn path=/trunk/; revision=200
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Id: README,v 1.11 1999/03/01 18:57:02 gram Exp $
+$Id: README,v 1.12 1999/03/01 20:35:33 guy Exp $
Wiretap is a library that is being developed as a future replacement for
libpcap, the current standard Unix library for packet capturing. Libpcap is
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ SunOS has NIT and Solaris has DLPI, which both use the CMU/Stanford
packet-filter psuedomachine. RMON has another type of packet-filter syntax
which we could support.
-Wiretap is very good at reading may file formats, as per #2
+Wiretap is very good at reading many file formats, as per #2
above. Display filters are now appearing in wiretap, but they are
still basic. Development is continuing on the BPF compiler, so display
filters will continue to be enhanced. Wiretap can't capture packets yet,
@@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ if possible).
Sniffer Basic (NetXRay)/Windows Sniffer Pro
-------------------------------------------
Network Associates' Sniffer Basic (formerly NetXRay from Cinco Networks)
-file format is now partially supported; only Ethernet captures can be
-read, and the packet time stamp isn't correctly computed. Network
-Associates' Windows Sniffer Pro appears to use a variant of that format;
-it's supported to the same extent.
+file format is now partially supported; only Ethernet and Token Ring
+captures can be read, and the packet time stamp isn't correctly
+computed. Network Associates' Windows Sniffer Pro appears to use a
+variant of that format; it's supported to the same extent.
Gilbert Ramirez <gram@verdict.uthscsa.edu>
Guy Harris <guy@netapp.com>