Charles Lepple wrote:

> For instance, if I create a .pcap file with "text2pcap -l 189 ..." on
> a big-endian machine, then the .pcap file seems not to have the
> byte-swapped flag set.

There's no byte-swapped flag in a libpcap file.  There's only a magic 
number, which is written out in host byte order on the machine on which 
the file is written; it either looks like 0xa1b2c3d4 if the file is 
being read on a machine with the same byte order, or like 0xd4c3b2a1 on 
a machine with the opposite byte-order.

If you create a .pcap file with text2pcap, the magic number will be 
written in the byte order of your machine, so it won't appear to be 
byte-swapped.
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