Re: [Ethereal-users] Importing PPP text files

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 09:24:28AM -0700, John Owen wrote:
> Is there any way of importing text files containing PPP traces.  Our
> hardware can write PPP data to a text file but I have no way of decoding
> it other then manually. 

You could either

	1) see if text2pcap can be used to convert the text file to a
	   libpcap file with a link-layer type of 9 (that's the libpcap
	   PPP link-layer type value)

or

	2) write a Wiretap module to read the text files.