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@@ -84,20 +84,14 @@ option and interface feature. Multiple File Types ------------------- -The wiretap library is a packet-capture library currently under -development parallel to Wireshark. In the future it is hoped that -wiretap will have more features than libpcap, but wiretap is still in -its infancy. However, wiretap is used in wireshark for its ability -to read multiple file types. See the Wireshark man page or the -Wireshark User's Guide for a list of supported file formats. - -In addition, it can read gzipped versions of any of those files -automatically if you have the zlib library available when compiling -Wireshark. Wireshark needs a modern version of zlib to be able to use -zlib to read gzipped files; version 1.1.3 is known to work. Versions -prior to 1.0.9 are missing some functions that Wireshark needs and won't -work. CMake will automatically use zlib if it is found on your system. -You can disable zlib support by running `cmake -DENABLE_ZLIB=OFF`. +Wireshark can read packets from a number of different file types. See +the Wireshark man page or the Wireshark User's Guide for a list of +supported file formats. + +Wireshark can transparently read gzipped versions of any of those files if +zlib was available when Wireshark was compiled. CMake will automatically +use zlib if it is found on your system. You can disable zlib support by +running `cmake -DENABLE_ZLIB=OFF`. Although Wireshark can read AIX iptrace files, the documentation on AIX's iptrace packet-trace command is sparse. The `iptrace` command |