Re: [Ethereal-users] decoding packets without lower layer headers

[Banibrata Dutta <banibrata.dutta@xxxxxxxxx>]

woops! even dummy SCTP header is supported. this is very good -- such
an excellent tool! i just need to add M3UA now.

regards,
bdutta

On 9/2/05, Banibrata Dutta <banibrata.dutta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> well, i think "text2pcap" can do this upto the UDP/TCP level... i
> guess i need to extend this to cover SCTP, and add another layer on
> top, to enable my application trace to be decodable by ethereal.
> 
> - bd
> 
> On 9/2/05, Banibrata Dutta <banibrata.dutta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > is there a way to decode some higher layer packets from say a hexdump
> > or binary dump, when the lower layer headers/trailers are missing, but
> > we explicitly select the protocol to be decoded ?
> >
> > of course a brute force approach is to create dummy lower layer
> > headers and then use regular decoding, but i am trying to avoid that.
> >
> > regards,
> > bdutta
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