Opening Compressed PCAPs with SNGREP

The wonders of troubleshooting SIP never cease. Ever try to open a pcap with sngrep only to get the following error? Couldn't open pcap file XYZ.pcap: unknown file format And then, even though you hate looking at SIP on wireshark, you are left wondering… Why does this file open in Wireshark, but not in sngrep? Well, most of the time, this is because the pcap file is actually compressed. Easy fix....

July 14, 2022 1 min Fred Posner