[Bro] unknown data link type 0xc

Christian Kreibich christian at whoop.org
Mon Jul 11 17:11:52 PDT 2005


Hi Martin,

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 18:25 +0200, Martin Petraschek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> When I execute bro on a sample pcap file, I get the following error:
> 
> bro: problem with trace file /data/syndata/trace.cap - unknown data link type 0xc
> 
> What does that mean? The pcap file is OK and can be read with tcpdump -r

what Bro version are you using? 0x0C is the code for raw packet
captures, starting directly with IP headers. Bro has supported these for
a while now but I remember DLT_RAW being added to the codebase. Try a
newer version?

Cheers,
Christian.
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