Actually, it's asking you for MAC addresses.  Cisco HDLC does not have
this information in the header and they are required for Ethernet.  In
your case, I recommend you just make them up- any valid MAC address
will work.

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Vikas Sharma <vsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Mr. Aaron Turner,
>
>
>
> My company is into security systems and had received a few CiscoHDLC pcap
> files (of 85 MBs each).
>
>
>
> Our software can only read only Ethernet packets and accordingly we tried to
> convert the CiscoHDLC pcap files into Ethernet (DLT) by using
>
>
>
> tcprewrite –dlt=enet --infile=input.pcap --outfile=output.pcap
>
>
>
> However the system (Ubuntu Lucid) asks for the source IP address and we are
> not able to provide that since that is not known to us (these are pcap files
> captured by an Endace DAG card on an OC3, STM line).
>
>
>
> Please suggest a way to convert CiscoHDLC pcap files into Ethernet pcap
> files.
>
>
>
> I have enclosed the protocol stack of the CiscoHDLC pcap file along with
> this email
>
> I await your response,
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Vikas Sharma
>
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