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Subject: Re: How do you guys tackle a package with poorish documentation?
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:01:25 +0530, "Veek. M" <vek.m1234@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:


>My question is: how do you guys deal with a situation like this? Do you 
>look through the source code? Do you switch to scapy? Do you now look 
>for books on scapy - there are quite a few, with chapters covering it.
>

	Me? For your application I'd likely just run Wireshark into a capture
file, and then post process the capture...

	Though that WAS a painful process in a way. Capture in Wireshark pcapng
format (a few GB of data) in the lab... transfer the capture to my desk
machine... Use Wireshark to load the capture, filter it, then save it in an
XML format (10x the GB)... Python program to read the XML and load the
parts I needed into an SQLite3 database (0.5x the original GB). Then
extract from database to Excel for plotting <G>

	Wireshark did have capture formats that would normally have been easier
-- but I needed the full precision time-stamp (my post processing was
reading two capture files -- what was sent from one NIC to an external
device, and what was received from that device on a separate NIC of the
same computer, so the time-stamps were on the same basis -- matching up
serial numbered data packets, and computing the time-delta latency).
-- 
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