[ARGUS] ArgusOpenInputPacketFile(all.pcap) unsupported device type 117

[mike tancsa]

On 3/27/2020 6:29 PM, Carter Bullard wrote:
> Hey Mike,
> What version of libpcap are you using with argus ???

Hi Carter,

    Whatever is on releng11 and 12 of FreeBSD.  Looks like

tcpdump version 4.9.3
libpcap version 1.9.1

    ---Mike

> Carter
>  
>
>> On Mar 27, 2020, at 5:53 PM, John Gerth <gerth at graphics.stanford.edu
>> <mailto:gerth at graphics.stanford.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> I had to convert pcapng files once and used the "editcap" commnd in
>> Wireshark 1.10 but that was awhile back.
>>
>> Here's a Wireshark guide which does mention pflog for editcap (but I
>> have not tried it)
>>   https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html/
>> --
>> John Gerth      gerth at graphics.stanford.edu
>> <mailto:gerth at graphics.stanford.edu>  Gates 164   (650) 725-3273
>>
>> On 3/27/20 2:25 PM, mike tancsa wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>     I am trying to convert pflog formatted pcap files to argus, but it
>>> does not seem to be recognized.  Does anyone have any work arounds /
>>> tips ? I would like to put it in Argus format so I can then run all the
>>> handy/dandy tools on the data set.
>>>
>>> tcpdump (on freebsd) reads them just fine of course. 
>>>
>>>  argus -r all.pcap -w all.arg 
>>>     ArgusError: 27 Mar 20 17:21:55.560712
>>> ArgusOpenInputPacketFile(all.pcap) unsupported device type 117
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> % tcpdump -nr all.pcap | head
>>> reading from file all.pcap, link-type PFLOG (OpenBSD pflog file)
>>> 17:30:10.343359 IP 10.99.6.235.59056 > 166.230.63.40.80: Flags [S], seq
>>> 4168153933, win 64240, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 8,nop,nop,sackOK],
>>> length 0
>>> 17:30:13.359187 IP 10.99.6.235.59056 > 166.230.63.40.80: Flags [S], seq
>>> 4168153933, win 64240, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 8,nop,nop,sackOK],
>>> length 0
>>> 17:30:19.374874 IP 10.99.6.235.59056 > 166.230.63.40.80: Flags [S], seq
>>> 4168153933, win 64240, options [mss 1460,nop,wscale 8,nop,nop,sackOK],
>>> length 0
>>>
>>>  file all.pcap
>>> all.pcap: pcapng capture file - version 1.0
>>>
>>>  hexdump -C all.pcap | head -20
>>> 00000000  0a 0d 0d 0a 70 00 00 00  4d 3c 2b 1a 01 00 00 00 
>>> |....p...M<+.....|
>>> 00000010  ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  03 00 13 00 46 72 65 65 
>>> |............Free|
>>> 00000020  42 53 44 20 31 32 2e 31  2d 53 54 41 42 4c 45 00  |BSD
>>> 12.1-STABLE.|
>>> 00000030  04 00 34 00 4d 65 72 67  65 63 61 70 20 28 57 69 
>>> |..4.Mergecap (Wi|
>>> 00000040  72 65 73 68 61 72 6b 29  20 33 2e 32 2e 32 20 28  |reshark)
>>> 3.2.2 (|
>>> 00000050  47 69 74 20 63 6f 6d 6d  69 74 20 61 33 65 66 65  |Git commit
>>> a3efe|
>>> 00000060  63 65 33 64 36 34 30 29  00 00 00 00 70 00 00 00 
>>> |ce3d640)....p...|
>>> 00000070  01 00 00 00 14 00 00 00  75 00 00 00 74 00 00 00 
>>> |........u...t...|
>>> 00000080  14 00 00 00 06 00 00 00  94 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
>>> |................|
>>> 00000090  b4 a1 05 00 bf d9 a9 92  74 00 00 00 74 00 00 00 
>>> |........t...t...|
>>> 000000a0  3d 02 01 00 76 6c 61 6e  32 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
>>> |=...vlan2.......|
>>>
>>>
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