It also provides hooks for performing custom actions through user-defined batch files, among other things. It allows you to save dumpcap.exe settings, be notified of capture events or trigger dumpcap.exe capturing after a capture event occurs. Learn it, use it, love it.ĭumpcap.bat A batch file front-end for dumpcap.exe. Tshark is the command-line equivalent of Wireshark, similar in many respects to tcpdump/WinDump but with many more features. Text2pcap generates a capture file from an ASCII hexdump of packets Reordercap reorder input file by timestamp into output file Rawshark dump and analyze raw libpcap data Mergecap merges multiple capture files into one For long-term capturing, this is the tool you want.Įditcap edit and/or translate the format of capture files

Dumpcap is the engine under the Wireshark/tshark hood.

These tools are useful to work with capture files.Ĭapinfos is a program that reads a saved capture file and returns any or all of several statistics about that fileĭumpcap a small program whose only purpose is to capture network traffic, while retaining advanced features like capturing to multiple files (since version 0.99.0). Some command line tools are shipped together with Wireshark.

Intrusion Analysis / SQL Database Support.

Capture file editors and/or anonymizers.

Wireshark packet sniffer tool