[Wireshark-dev] Annotating capture files and/or pcap pre-processing

2010-11-11 Thread Jouni Malinen
Is there any recommended way of annotating capture files in a way that Wireshark could display in nice way on the UI? I would like to be able to insert text comments between frames and it would also be nice to be able to add expert info entries. So far, I've been using a dummy frame that I

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Annotating capture files and/or pcap pre-processing

2010-11-11 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 11, 2010, at 3:55 PM, Jouni Malinen wrote: Is pcap-ng likely to materialize any time soon? Define materialize. Wireshark is capable of reading and writing pcap-ng files, and has been capable of that for a while; libpcap 1.1.x can also read pcap-ng files that have only one link-layer

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Annotating capture files and/or pcap pre-processing

2010-11-11 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Define materialize.  Wireshark is capable of reading and writing pcap-ng files, and has been capable of that for a while; libpcap 1.1.x can also read pcap-ng files that have only one link-layer type and snapshot length

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Annotating capture files and/or pcap pre-processing

2010-11-11 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
On Nov 11, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Jouni Malinen wrote: This looks somewhat better than the picture I got from the wiki page (http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/PcapNg) which seemed to indicate that only Ethernet link type would be supported. Though, the per-packet opt_comment part would likely

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Annotating capture files and/or pcap pre-processing

2010-11-11 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 11, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote: If you do it, please make it agnostic to the file format, or at least easy to patch for other file formats. Wireshark supports reading/writing multiple file formats, some of which also support per-packet comments, Which ones other than

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Annotating capture files and/or pcap pre-processing

2010-11-11 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
On Nov 11, 2010, at 8:45 PM, Guy Harris wrote: On Nov 11, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote: If you do it, please make it agnostic to the file format, or at least easy to patch for other file formats. Wireshark supports reading/writing multiple file formats, some of which also