How to open CAN dbc file in wireshark
Hi
How to open a CAN dbc file using wireshark. we are using wireshark version 2.4.6..
Thanks lenin
Note that if one of the technical reasons is "it has a GTK+ GUI", it will not function AT ALL with Wireshark 3.0 and later, as we aren't building or distributing "legacy" GTK+ versions of Wireshark 3.0 and later (we've even removed the GTK+ GUI source code from the source tree in those branches and in the master branch).
Hi Guy, this is the main reason. The "live view" functionality which is another part of the plugin would require a rewrite from GTK+ to Qt, which is fairly extensive. We might work with Jakub later to get this updated for 3.0, but if others are willing to pick it up we'd of course support that.
So are those files containing the data for messages sent over the CAN bus, or are they files that contain descriptions for fields in messages?
The first would be a file that you'd read in Wireshark and get a list of packets. The second would be a file that would be read when Wireshark started up, or when it first saw a CAN bus message, and that Wireshark would use to interpret the content of CAN bus messages in a file that contains a sequence of CAN bus messages.
From what I can find on the Internet, it may be the second of those.
From a look at the code, they appear to be files that describe the format of messages; the plugin includes a dissector that reads a dbc file and uses it to process CAN bus messages.