Re: Create message bases
  By: andrew clarke to Alan Ianson on Sat Apr 17 2021 03:57 pm

 AC> FWIW pktview is a Perl script.

Yes, now that I take a closer look it is.

 AC> WRT pktinfo, I worked on C code recently and made some improvements, but
 AC> its weakness is it heavily relies on HPT's packet parsing functions. A
 AC> broken packet will tend to make pktinfo abort execution (like HPT would)
 AC> instead of just displaying what information it can. There's not really an
 AC> easy way I can fix that without potentially breaking something in HPT, so
 AC> it will have to do.

pktinfo has never failed me so far so I hope I will never get packets that are so broken.

I haven't looked at pktview in a long time but I can't seem to get it to read a packet currently. How does one use pktview?

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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