Hi,

Read the manual page very carefully: "Text2pcap understands a hexdump of the 
form generated by od -Ax -tx1. In other words, each byte is individually 
displayed and surrounded with a space."

That is also the problem with the patch discussed earlier, it doesn't really 
work in all cases.

Thanx,
Jaap


Andy Lawman wrote:
> Abhik,
> 
> text2pcap was designed to read hex dumps in od format ie: with a 
> character representation of the data on the right. If, like me, you have 
> to create a hex dump from some other source to act as input to 
> text2pcap, then it's your responsibility to ensure that there's 
> something on the right that acts as a place holder. I append " .." which 
> is sufficient for text2pcap.
> 
> Andy.
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> Hi All,
> 
> I just ran into a small problem while using text2pcap and I wanted to
> know (before I attempt to fix it) whether this is a problem at all.
> 
> Let's say I have a text file with a single line as so (this is just an
> example, not actual payload):
> 00000000 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 0123456789
> 
> According to the comments in text2pcap.c, The text at the end is
> ignored. My interpretation of this is that the text at the end may or
> may not be present. Perhaps this interpretation is not quite right
> because, if I have a like like this (quotes added to clarify the
> situation):
> "00000000 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39"
> the last byte is ignored. However, if the line is like this
> "00000000 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 "
> then it is parsed correctly.
> 
> Not having the text part in the end is useful sometimes because
> sometimes we get just a hex dump of the TCP payload (but without the
> text part in the end).
> 
> Thanks!
> Abhik.

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