RE: Format of Etheral pcap files

"Andrew Chalk" <[email protected]> Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:43:20 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.network.ethereal.user
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Many thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guy Harris
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:41 PM
To: Ethereal user support
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Format of Etheral pcap files

Andrew Chalk wrote:
> My original question wasn't very clear. I want to send the packets in the
> capture file over the network to test an app. that is supposed to capture
> them. For example, I could send them with WinPcap. Given that scenario,
does
> the ethereal dump contain the original packet data is it encoded? Is there
a
> header, etc?

At least for Ethernet, yes - what the packet contains is the original 
packet data, byte for byte.
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