User Guide

Figure 5.3. "Open" - old GTK version

Windows (GTK1 installed)

This is the file open dialog of former Gimp/

GNOME versions - plus some Wireshark exten-

sions.

Specific for this dialog:

• If Wireshark doesn't recognize the selected

file as a capture file, it will grey out the "Ok"

button.

5.2.2. Input File Formats

The following file formats from other capture tools can be opened by Wireshark:

• libpcap, tcpdump and various other tools using tcpdump's capture format

• Sun snoop and atmsnoop

• Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor captures

• Novell LANalyzer captures

• Microsoft Network Monitor captures

• AIX's iptrace captures

• Cinco Networks NetXray captures

• Network Associates Windows-based Sniffer and Sniffer Pro captures

• Network General/Network Associates DOS-based Sniffer (compressed or uncompressed) cap-

tures

• AG Group/WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek/EtherHelp/PacketGrabber captures

• RADCOM's WAN/LAN Analyzer captures

• Network Instruments Observer version 9 captures

• Lucent/Ascend router debug output

• HP-UX's nettl

• Toshiba's ISDN routers dump output

• ISDN4BSD i4btrace utility

• traces from the EyeSDN USB S0

• IPLog format from the Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System

• pppd logs (pppdump format)

File Input / Output and Printing