Posted by: sn00p
Etherreal - 07/04/2006 19:10
I spent all today interfacing to a ethernet chip and looking at packets....
Why the hell doesn't etherreal allow you to load a single packet as a binary dump?!
The text2pcap software is complete and utter junk that wouldn't take any input (binary->text using od.exe), even as specified in it's manpage.
I ended up having to write a small utility to dump the binary output as text that it liked, but I find it ever so amusing that I have to drop to a command line to run a batch file to get the packet into a format that it'll understand.
Most frustrating day ever. I still don't get how ARP doesn't end up with it's knickers in a twist when DHCP gets involved. (release address and allocate a new one).
I need a beer.
Why the hell doesn't etherreal allow you to load a single packet as a binary dump?!
The text2pcap software is complete and utter junk that wouldn't take any input (binary->text using od.exe), even as specified in it's manpage.
I ended up having to write a small utility to dump the binary output as text that it liked, but I find it ever so amusing that I have to drop to a command line to run a batch file to get the packet into a format that it'll understand.
Most frustrating day ever. I still don't get how ARP doesn't end up with it's knickers in a twist when DHCP gets involved. (release address and allocate a new one).
I need a beer.