User Guide

File Input / Output and Printing

items like: "Home", "Desktop", and "Filesystem"

cannot be removed).

• If Wireshark doesn't recognize the selected file as

a capture file, it will grey out the "Open" button.

Figure 5.3. "Open" - old GTK version

Unix/Linux: GTK version < 2.4

This is the file open dialog of former Gimp/

GNOME versions - plus some Wireshark

extensions.

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 - captures from Wireshark/TShark/dumpcap, tcpdump, and various other tools using libpcap's/

tcpdump's capture format

• pcap-ng - "next-generation" successor to libpcap 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) captures

• 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