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-rw-r--r--wiretap/ngsniffer.c16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/wiretap/ngsniffer.c b/wiretap/ngsniffer.c
index 0529cf4c60..b2f07d11fe 100644
--- a/wiretap/ngsniffer.c
+++ b/wiretap/ngsniffer.c
@@ -83,10 +83,22 @@ static const char ngsniffer_magic[] = {
/*
* and now for some unknown header types
*/
-#define REC_HEADER1 6 /* Header containing serial numbers? */
+#define REC_HEADER1 6 /* Header containing various information,
+ * not yet reverse engineered - some binary,
+ * some strings (Serial numbers? Names
+ * under which the software is registered?
+ * Software version numbers? Mysterious
+ * strings such as "PA-55X" and "PA-30X"
+ * and "PA-57X" and "PA-11X"?), some strings
+ * that are partially overwritten
+ * ("UNSERIALIZED", "Network General
+ * Corporation"), differing from major
+ * version to major version */
#define REC_HEADER2 7 /* Header containing ??? */
#define REC_V2DESC 8 /* In version 2 sniffer traces contains
- * infos about this capturing session.
+ * info about this capturing session,
+ * in the form of a multi-line string
+ * with NL as the line separator.
* Collides with REC_FRAME4 */
#define REC_HEADER3 13 /* Retransmission counts? */
#define REC_HEADER4 14 /* ? */