Hi Michael. Thanks for clarifying that for me.

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Michael Tüxen <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Tyson,
>
> 1.0.7 does only support one section header and one interface header at
> the
> beginning of the pcapng file. The current svn version, allows one
> section
> header at the beginning and multiple interface headers, but not multiple
> sections headers. Basically, Wireshark (the svn version) can currently
> only read pcapng files containing one section. That is the reason why
> you can not just concatenate several pcapng files and read the
> resulting file.
> So it is not a limitation of pcapng, but of its current implementation
> in Wireshark.
>
> Best regards
> Michael
>
> On May 22, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Tyson Key wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> > Out of interest, are there supposed to be issues with Ethernet Pcap-
> > NG files/packets appended to other Pcap-NG files generated with
> > Wireshark 1.0.7 having an unrecognised link type in later (SVN)
> > versions of Wireshark? At the same time, it seems that 1.0.7 has
> > issues reading packets in Pcap-NG files from later versions (i.e.
> > it'll try to recognise a few frames, and if the link type is
> > Ethernet, show them in the packet pane, but it'll complain about a
> > decompression error when trying to view them, or it'll just show one
> > packet with an unknown link type (usally 0 or 113 here), depending
> > on how packets were combined).
> >
> > I've attached some samples for reference.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tyson.
> >
> > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Ulf Lamping <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > Aaron Turner schrieb:
> > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Michael Tüxen
> > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> On May 21, 2009, at 9:15 PM, Aaron Turner wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Michael Tüxen
> > >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>>> Hi Aaron,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> can you check also with the latest svn version?
> > >>> This was trunk-1.0 r28436.  Are you working in trunk (wireshark
> > >>> 1.1.x)?
> > >> Yes, I'm working in 1.1.x...
> > >
> > >
> > > I just looked at the lastest trunk, and it too hard codes only
> > > ethernet as supported:
> > >
> > > from wiretap/pcapng.c pcapng_dump_can_write_encap():
> > >
> > >       /* XXX - for now we only support Ethernet */
> > >       if (encap != WTAP_ENCAP_ETHERNET)
> > >               return WTAP_ERR_UNSUPPORTED_ENCAP;
> > >
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > This comment is from the time when I started to experimentally
> > implement
> > pcapng.
> >
> > This was only a rough prototype at that time and as I'm personally
> > only
> > using Ethernet, I've only implemented the absolutely necessary stuff.
> >
> > It's very long ago so I can't remember if there are any further
> > problems
> > with anything else then Ethernet.
> >
> > Seems that you're the first one trying to use it in this way ...
> >
> > Regards, ULFL
> >
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> > Cooked_DC28436
> > -107_Ethernet_Concat
> > .ntar
> > >
> > <
> > Cooked_Dumpcap_SVN_28436
> > .ntar
> > >
> > <
> > Ethernet_Dumpcap_SVN_28436
> > .ntar
> > >
> > <
> > Ethernet_Wireshark_1.0.7
> > .ntar
> > >
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