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=head1 NAME
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editcap - Edit and/or translate the format of capture files
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=head1 SYNOPSIS
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B<editcap>
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S<[ B<-c> E<lt>packets per fileE<gt> ]>
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S<[ B<-C> E<lt>choplenE<gt> ]>
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S<[ B<-E> E<lt>error probabilityE<gt> ]>
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S<[ B<-F> E<lt>file formatE<gt> ]>
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S<[ B<-A> E<lt>start timeE<gt> ]>
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S<[ B<-B> E<lt>stop timeE<gt> ]>
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S<[ B<-h> ]>
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S<[ B<-i> E<lt>seconds per fileE<gt> ]>
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S<[ B<-r> ]>
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S<[ B<-s> E<lt>snaplenE<gt> ]>
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S<[ B<-t> E<lt>time adjustmentE<gt> ]>
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S<[ B<-T> E<lt>encapsulation typeE<gt> ]>
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S<[ B<-v> ]>
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I<infile>
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I<outfile>
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S<[ I<packet#>[-I<packet#>] ... ]>
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B<editcap>
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S< B<-d> > |
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S< B<-D> E<lt>dup windowE<gt> > |
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S< B<-w> E<lt>dup time windowE<gt> >
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S<[ B<-v> ]>
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I<infile>
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I<outfile>
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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B<Editcap> is a program that reads some or all of the captured packets from the
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I<infile>, optionally converts them in various ways and writes the
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resulting packets to the capture I<outfile> (or outfiles).
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By default, it reads all packets from the I<infile> and writes them to the
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I<outfile> in libpcap file format.
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An optional list of packet numbers can be specified on the command tail;
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individual packet numbers separated by whitespace and/or ranges of packet
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numbers can be specified as I<start>-I<end>, referring to all packets from
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I<start> to I<end>. By default the selected packets with those numbers will
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I<not> be written to the capture file. If the B<-r> flag is specified, the
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whole packet selection is reversed; in that case I<only> the selected packets
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will be written to the capture file.
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B<Editcap> can also be used to remove duplicate packets. Several different
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options (B<-d>, B<-D> and B<-w>) are used to control the packet window
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or relative time window to be used for duplicate comparison.
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B<Editcap> is able to detect, read and write the same capture files that
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are supported by B<Wireshark>.
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The input file doesn't need a specific filename extension; the file
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format and an optional gzip compression will be automatically detected.
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Near the beginning of the DESCRIPTION section of wireshark(1) or
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L<http://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/wireshark.html>
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is a detailed description of the way B<Wireshark> handles this, which is
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the same way B<Editcap> handles this.
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B<Editcap> can write the file in several output formats. The B<-F>
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flag can be used to specify the format in which to write the capture
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file; B<editcap -F> provides a list of the available output formats.
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=head1 OPTIONS
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=over 4
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=item -c E<lt>packets per fileE<gt>
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Splits the packet output to different files based on uniform packet counts
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with a maximum of <packets per file> each. Each output file will
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be created with a suffix -nnnnn, starting with 00000. If the specified
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number of packets is written to the output file, the next output file is
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opened. The default is to use a single output file.
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=item -C E<lt>choplenE<gt>
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Sets the chop length to use when writing the packet data.
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Each packet is chopped at the packet end by a few <choplen> bytes of data.
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This is useful in the rare case that the conversion between two file
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formats leaves some random bytes at the end of each packet.
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=item -d
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Attempts to remove duplicate packets. The length and MD5 hash of the
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current packet are compared to the previous four (4) packets. If a
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match is found, the current packet is skipped. This option is equivalent
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to using the option B<-D 5>.
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=item -D E<lt>dup windowE<gt>
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Attempts to remove duplicate packets. The length and MD5 hash of the
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current packet are compared to the previous <dup window> - 1 packets.
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If a match is found, the current packet is skipped.
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The use of the option B<-D 0> combined with the B<-v> option is useful
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in that each packet's Packet number, Len and MD5 Hash will be printed
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to standard out. This verbose output (specifically the MD5 hash strings)
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can be useful in scripts to identify duplicate packets across trace
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files.
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The <dup window> is specifed as an integer value between 0 and 1000000 (inclusive).
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NOTE: Specifying large <dup window> values with large tracefiles can
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result in very long processing times for B<editcap>.
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=item -w E<lt>dup time windowE<gt>
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Attempts to remove duplicate packets. The current packet's arrival time
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is compared with up to 1000000 previous packets. If the packet's relative
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arrival time is I<less than or equal to> the <dup time window> of a previous packet
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and the packet length and MD5 hash of the current packet are the same then
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the packet to skipped. The duplicate comparison test stops when
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the current packet's relative arrival time is greater than <dup time window>.
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The <dup time window> is specifed as I<seconds>[I<.fractional seconds>].
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The [.fractional seconds] component can be specified to nine (9) decimal
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places (billionths of a second) but most typical trace files have resolution
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to six (6) decimal places (millionths of a second).
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NOTE: Specifying large <dup time window> values with large tracefiles can
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result in very long processing times for B<editcap>.
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NOTE: The B<-w> option assumes that the packets are in chronological order.
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If the packets are NOT in chronological order then the B<-w> duplication
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removal option may not identify some duplicates.
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=item -E E<lt>error probabilityE<gt>
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Sets the probabilty that bytes in the output file are randomly changed.
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B<Editcap> uses that probability (between 0.0 and 1.0 inclusive)
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to apply errors to each data byte in the file. For instance, a
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probability of 0.02 means that each byte has a 2% chance of having an error.
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This option is meant to be used for fuzz-testing protocol dissectors.
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=item -F E<lt>file formatE<gt>
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Sets the file format of the output capture file.
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B<Editcap> can write the file in several formats, B<editcap -F>
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provides a list of the available output formats. The default
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is the B<libpcap> format.
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=item -A E<lt>start timeE<gt>
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Saves only the packets whose timestamp is on or after start time.
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The time is given in the following format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
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=item -B E<lt>stop timeE<gt>
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Saves only the packets whose timestamp is on or before stop time.
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The time is given in the following format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
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=item -h
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Prints the version and options and exits.
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=item -i E<lt>seconds per fileE<gt>
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Splits the packet output to different files based on uniform time intervals
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using a maximum interval of <seconds per file> each. Each output file will
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be created with a suffix -nnnnn, starting with 00000. If packets for the specified
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time interval are written to the output file, the next output file is
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opened. The default is to use a single output file.
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=item -r
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Reverse the packet selection.
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Causes the packets whose packet numbers are specified on the command
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line to be written to the output capture file, instead of discarding them.
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=item -s E<lt>snaplenE<gt>
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Sets the snapshot length to use when writing the data.
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If the B<-s> flag is used to specify a snapshot length, packets in the
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input file with more captured data than the specified snapshot length
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will have only the amount of data specified by the snapshot length
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written to the output file.
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This may be useful if the program that is
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to read the output file cannot handle packets larger than a certain size
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(for example, the versions of snoop in Solaris 2.5.1 and Solaris 2.6
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appear to reject Ethernet packets larger than the standard Ethernet MTU,
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making them incapable of handling gigabit Ethernet captures if jumbo
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packets were used).
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=item -t E<lt>time adjustmentE<gt>
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Sets the time adjustment to use on selected packets.
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If the B<-t> flag is used to specify a time adjustment, the specified
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adjustment will be applied to all selected packets in the capture file.
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The adjustment is specified as [-]I<seconds>[I<.fractional seconds>].
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For example, B<-t> 3600 advances the timestamp on selected packets by one
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hour while B<-t> -0.5 reduces the timestamp on selected packets by
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one-half second.
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This feature is useful when synchronizing dumps
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collected on different machines where the time difference between the
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two machines is known or can be estimated.
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=item -T E<lt>encapsulation typeE<gt>
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Sets the packet encapsulation type of the output capture file.
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If the B<-T> flag is used to specify an encapsulation type, the
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encapsulation type of the output capture file will be forced to the
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specified type.
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B<editcap -T> provides a list of the available types. The default
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type is the one appropriate to the encapsulation type of the input
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capture file.
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Note: this merely
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forces the encapsulation type of the output file to be the specified
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type; the packet headers of the packets will not be translated from the
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encapsulation type of the input capture file to the specified
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encapsulation type (for example, it will not translate an Ethernet
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capture to an FDDI capture if an Ethernet capture is read and 'B<-T
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fddi>' is specified). If you need to remove/add headers from/to a
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packet, you will need od(1)/text2pcap(1).
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=item -v
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Causes B<editcap> to print verbose messages while it's working.
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Use of B<-v> with the de-duplication switches of B<-d>, B<-D> or B<-w>
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will cause all MD5 hashes to be printed whether the packet is skipped
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or not.
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=back
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=head1 EXAMPLES
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To see more detailed description of the options use:
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editcap -h
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To shrink the capture file by truncating the packets at 64 bytes and writing it as Sun snoop file use:
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editcap -s 64 -F snoop capture.pcap shortcapture.snoop
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To delete packet 1000 from the capture file use:
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editcap capture.pcap sans1000.pcap 1000
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To limit a capture file to packets from number 200 to 750 (inclusive) use:
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editcap -r capture.pcap small.pcap 200-750
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To get all packets from number 1-500 (inclusive) use:
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editcap -r capture.pcap first500.pcap 1-500
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or
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editcap capture.pcap first500.pcap 501-9999999
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To exclude packets 1, 5, 10 to 20 and 30 to 40 from the new file use:
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editcap capture.pcap exclude.pcap 1 5 10-20 30-40
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To select just packets 1, 5, 10 to 20 and 30 to 40 for the new file use:
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editcap -r capture.pcap select.pcap 1 5 10-20 30-40
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To remove duplicate packets seen within the prior four frames use:
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editcap -d capture.pcap dedup.pcap
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To remove duplicate packets seen within the prior 100 frames use:
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editcap -D 101 capture.pcap dedup.pcap
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To remove duplicate packets seen I<equal to or less than> 1/10th of a second:
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editcap -w 0.1 capture.pcap dedup.pcap
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To display the MD5 hash for all of the packets (and NOT generate any
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real output file):
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editcap -v -D 0 capture.pcap /dev/null
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or on Windows systems
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editcap -v -D 0 capture.pcap NUL
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To introduce 5% random errors in a capture file use:
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=over 4
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editcap -E 0.05 capture.pcap capture_error.pcap
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=back
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=head1 SEE ALSO
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tcpdump(8), pcap(3), wireshark(1), tshark(1), mergecap(1), dumpcap(1),
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capinfos(1), text2pcap(1), od(1)
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=head1 NOTES
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B<Editcap> is part of the B<Wireshark> distribution. The latest version
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of B<Wireshark> can be found at L<http://www.wireshark.org>.
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HTML versions of the Wireshark project man pages are available at:
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L<http://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages>.
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=head1 AUTHORS
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Original Author
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-------- ------
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Richard Sharpe <sharpe[AT]ns.aus.com>
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Contributors
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Guy Harris <guy[AT]alum.mit.edu>
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Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping[AT]web.de>
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