Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the whole Ethereal team for their assistance. In particular, I would like to thank:

• Gerald Combs, for initiating the Ethereal project and funding me to do this documentation.

• Guy Harris, for many helpful hints and a great deal of patience in reviewing this document.

• Gilbert Ramirez, for general encouragement and helpful hints along the way.

I would also like to thank the following people for their helpful feedback on this document:

• Pat Eyler, for his suggestions on improving the example on generating a backtrace.

I would like to acknowledge those man page and README authors for the ethereal project from who sections of this document borrow heavily:

• Scott Renfro from whose mergecap man page the Section called Merging multiple capture files into a single capture file with mergecap in the chapter called Related tools derived.

• Ashok Narayanan from whose text2pcap man page the Section called Converting ASCII hexdumps to network captures with text2pcap in the chapter called Related tools derived.

• Frank Singleton from whose README.idl2eth the Section called Creating dissectors from Corba IDL files with idl2eth in the chapter called Related tools derived.