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@@ -51,9 +51,10 @@ development parallel to ethereal. In the future it is hoped that wiretap will have more features than libpcap, but wiretap is still in its infancy. You can compile ethereal with the wiretap library by using './configure --with-wiretap'. Using wiretap will allow you to read -pcap, Sniffer, Sun "snoop", and LANalyzer trace files, but it disables -display filters. You can still capture packets from within ethereal -using libpcap, and therefore use libpcap-style capture filters, however. +pcap, Sniffer, Sun "snoop", LANalyzer, Microsoft Network Monitor, and +AIX "iptrace" 2.0 trace files, but it disables display filters. You can +still capture packets from within ethereal using libpcap, and therefore +use libpcap-style capture filters, however. If you can live without display filters and would like to read non-pcap capture files, give wiretap a try. If you want to add support for other |