----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Developer support list for Wireshark" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] pcap-ng support


> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 04:31:46PM -0800, Gianluca Varenni wrote:
>
>> FYI today I tried opening a pcap-ng file with wireshark rev 24118, and
>> it sort of worked.
>
>> - timestamps are wrong. There are two problems here:
>>  1. the IDB option for the timestamp precision is not decoded, and I was
>> generating timestamps with nanosecond precision.
>>  2. timestamps are not in the libpcap fashion (seconds and microseconds, 
>> or
>> seconds and nanoseconds). It's a single 64bit quantity that is split into
>> high and low 32bits.
>
> Thanks for the feedback.  Is it possible for you to place at least one
> NTAR generated trace on the Wiki page for pcapg support
> (http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/PcapNg) with information about
> the trace such as the correct timestamps and anything else that is being
> read wrong currently?

Done. There's a file called icmp.ntar containing 8 ICMP messages, and a 
small screenshot of a tool that is able to read pcap-ng files correctly.

Have a nice day
GV


>
>
> Thanks,
>  Steve
>
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