ethereal - save to ascii option?

[Alex Hunsley]

I'm using ethereal 0.9.16 under windows 2000 to diagnose a firewall
problem. Once I've done some packet capturing, I'd like to save the
captured packets as a plain ascii text file with the important details
like drc, dst IP, packet type, etc.
Ethereal doesn't have an option to save as ascii as far as I can tell.
Does anyone know how to convert once of the formats it *does* save into
nice ascii?
(It supports at least ten formats, including libpcap, tcpdump etc.)

thanks,
alex

 

[Alex Hunsley]

I'm using ethereal 0.9.16 under windows 2000 to diagnose a firewall
problem. Once I've done some packet capturing, I'd like to save the
captured packets as a plain ascii text file with the important details
like drc, dst IP, packet type, etc.
Ethereal doesn't have an option to save as ascii as far as I can tell.
Does anyone know how to convert once of the formats it *does* save into
nice ascii?
(It supports at least ten formats, including libpcap, tcpdump etc.)

thanks,
alex

I've found a workaround - just use "tcpdump -r inputFile" on a box
running tcpdump (linux).