December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
20h 42m
English
book
Wireshark Revealed: Essential Skills for IT Professionals
by James H Baxter, Yoram Orzach, Charit Mishra
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Chapter 8. Command-line and Other Utilities
Wireshark includes a number of command-line utilities to manipulate packet trace files and offer GUI-free packet captures, and there are a few other tools that can help round out your analysis toolset.
The topics that will be covered in this chapter include:
- Capturing traffic with Dumpcap and Tshark
- Editing trace files with Editcap
- Merging trace files with Mergecap
- Other helpful tools
Wireshark command-line utilities
When you install Wireshark, a range of command-line tools also gets installed, including:
capinfos.exe: This prints information about trace filesdumpcap.exe: This captures packets and saves to a libpcap format fileeditcap.exe: This splits a trace file, alters timestamps, and removes duplicate packets ...
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