Hello, I came into this exception when trying to read a valid pcap file. I can read the file with tcpdump -r . I verified that this is a valid pcap file (d4 c3 b2 a1 header), but still getting this exception. I noticed that the linktype mentioned by tcpdump is linktypeRaw and I guess packetbeat ca…

Packetbeat Exiting: Sniffer main loop failed: Unsupported link type: UnknownLinkType(12)

system (system) Closed December 6, 2018, 11:43am 4

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