Supported Trace File Formats and Protocols

Supported File Formats and Protocols

Supported Trace File Formats

The Trace Analyzer is able to read from and write to a variety of trace file formats. However, the license you received may limit you to a subset of these (see Licensing section). Version 1.0 of the product includes I/O Plug-in modules to support the following formats:

Sniffer (uncompressed) - This file format is supported because of its status as a de facto standard in the world of network analysis tools. Most analysis and network packet capture tools read and write files in this format. Trace file names are expected to have a .enc or a .trc extension.
DatagLANce - This file format was introduced with IBM's now defunct DatagLANce network analyzer, previously available for OS/2. It is supported for backward compatibility with this toolset. Trace file names are expected to have a .dgc extension.
Kernel Trace for OS/2 - This file format is used by Golden Code's Kernel Trace for OS/2 capture software, which records data about service requests made of the OS/2 operating system kernel. Trace file names are expected to have a .ktr extension.

Supported Protocols

The Trace Analyzer v1.0 includes protocol definitions to support, fully or partially, the following protocols. However, the license you received may limit you to a subset of these (see Licensing section). The following classes of protocols are available:

Network Protocols
Kernel Trace for OS/2 Protocols

Network Protocols

Ethernet/802.3
Token Ring

MAC - Media Access Control
BPDU - Bridge Protocol Data Unit
LLC - Logical Link Control
SNAP - Subnetwork Access Protocol
RI - Routing Information

IP Suite

ARP - Address Resolution Protocol
BOOTP - Bootstrap Protocol
DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DNS - Domain Name System
EIGRP - Cisco Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
HTTP - Hypertext Transmission Protocol
ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol
IGMP - Internet Group Management Protocol
IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol
IP - Internet Protocol
LPR/LPD - Line Printer Requester/Line Printer Daemon
NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol
POP3 - Post Office Protocol, Version 3
RARP - Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RIP - Routing Information Protocol
RIP2 - Routing Information Protocol, Version 2
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
TCPBEUI
Telnet
TFTP - Trivial File Transfer Protocol
UDP - User Datagram Protocol

NetBIOS
SMB - Server Message Block
SNA - IBM Systems Network Architecture
Novell Netware

NPAP - Network Printer Alliance Protocol
RPC - Remote Procedure Call

NFS - Network File System
MOUNT

Kernel Trace for OS/2 Protocols

Kernel Trace Tracepoints (see Kernel Trace for OS/2 user documentation)