Lucent Technologies Ethereal - Manual (Page 97)

file and writing it out using a different format.
5. Use "Browse for other folders" to browse files and folders in your file system.
6. Click on the Save button to accept your selected file and save to it. If Ethereal has a problem
saving the captured packets to the file you specified, it will display an error dialog box. After
clicking OK on this error dialog box, you can try again.
7. Click on the Cancel button to go back to Ethereal and not save the captured packets.
5.3.2. Output File Formats
The following file formats can be saved by Ethereal, so other capture tools can read the capture data
from:
• libpcap (tcpdump)
• Novell LANalyzer
• Network Associates Sniffer
• Sun snoop
• Microsoft Network Monitor
• Visual Networks Visual UpTime traffic
• Accellent 5Views
• Networks Instruments Observer version 9
• HP-UX's nettl
Other protocol analyzers may require that the file has a certain suffix in order to read
the files you generate with Ethereal, e.g.:
".DMP" for Tcpdump/libpcap
".CAP" for Network Associates Sniffer Windows
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