Re: [Ethereal-users] Capture file format conversion problem.

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I want to read with my app some capture files that are formatted in a 
> generic network sniffer (DOS) format, so I used the editcap utility from 
> ethereal to convert the format to libpcap, although tcpdump and windump are 
> able to read the converted file my application can't.

Is your application using "pcap_open_offline()", and either
"pcap_dispatch()" or "pcap_loop()", to read the capture file?  That's
what tcpdump and windump do.

If not, change it to do so.

If it fails when using "pcap_open_offline()", what sort of failure are
you getting?