RE: Format of Etheral pcap files

Andrew,
 
When you say "send a file" what exactly do you mean? Doing a FTP or SMB transfer of the file isn't going to do anything to test your app.
 
However if what you are asking is "is there enough info in the pcap file to enable a tool to replicate the network traffic it saw?" the answer is a cautious yes. The standard tool to use the data found in a pcap file and send it back into the network is the "tcpreplay" suite of tools - http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/trac/ . 
 
 
Martin

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From: [email protected] on behalf of Andrew Chalk
Sent: Fri 28/07/2006 3:00 PM
To: Ethereal Users
Subject: [Ethereal-users] Format of Etheral pcap files



I want to send a series of specific protocol packets across a network to test an application that is supposed to capture and analyze the packets. Can I just send an Ethereal pcap file containing the correct protocol packets? I.e does it contain the packets in an uncorrupted form? 

 

Many thanks.

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