I am interested in opening a capture file in wireshark and then exporting the data in "C arrays" format [Wireshark provides that option in its GUI. One can do it by following "File->Export->as C arrays file" from the main menu.My question is how can I do this in perl? Can someone help me with a script for this?
I Would like to parse each and every packet of the wireshark capture. So I thought, I will first convert each packet to an array and then parse it. Do you have any suggestions on this? My capture consists of all IEEE 802.11 frames.
If you want to do all the parsing yourself, i.e. look at the raw packet data, I would suggest writing your own program using libpcap to read pcap-format capture files (on UN*X, libpcap 1.1.0 and later can also read pcap-ng-format capture files, which is what Wireshark 1.8.0 and later write by default). No need to write stuff out as C arrays.
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I have the problem that I want to parse 10,000 pcap files to analize 10 packets wrote in each file, I'd like to know some issues like the time between each packet was sent and the message wrote in each packet.
The thing is i have no idea on how to parse them, Somebody could help me to give an idea how to parse the 10,000 files and extract that information.
Thank you in advance
Rodolfo Heron
you can look at this site, be patient to find what you are looking for, good work
https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/index.html
you can find components with the dir function
I'm struggling to find a simple way to read data from arecord, and then after some processing send it to aplay using Julia. I've figured out how to use pipelines to directly send data over:
run(pipeline(`arecord -d 3`, `aplay`)) # Same as: arecord -d 3 | aplay
I've also figured out how to obtain data:
data = read(`arecord -d 3`)
However, the simple task of outputting data to aplay has eluded me, which got me thinking of how, in general, one would go about taking some data d and throwing it into some ::Cmd (or at least converting some ::Cmd into an ::IOStream) variable in Julia. Also, what would the differences be between a 1 off stream (like the above for reading audio data) and a continuous stream (which would only stop after being told to close).
Thanks in advance for your help.
EDIT: arecord and aplay are standard linux terminal commands to record and play audio. arecord -d 3 generates a simple vector of 8bit values, sampling at 8kHz.
To be clear, I'm asking:
What is the standard way of reading data from a ::Cmd as a continuous data stream into a vector (e.g. reading from a never-ending file).
What is the standard way of writing a vector of data into a ::Cmd as either a 1 off instance or as a continuous stream of data (e.g. writing to a file once verses continually appending it).
This is NOT file specific because writing to aplay, a standard ::Cmd variable which works in the pipeline example above, does not work when just trying to pass it some data using either the pipeline or write functions (or at least I have been unsuccessful in doing so).
After reading and processing data. Try
open(`aplay`,"w",STDOUT) do stdin
write(stdin, data)
end
Given a pcap file I need to get the payloads of packets in Matlab. I read pcap2matlab does this but I couldn't understand the documentation properly. Can any one help me in this regard ?. If anyone used this function please explain to me both in capture mode and read mode.
Reading the documentation on pcap2matlab, you capture information directly from your network interface or you can use it in read mode where you read *.pcap files that you generate from a network logging utility such as Wireshark.
pcap2matlab looks like you should be able to use it in read only mode by reading in a filename directly, without any other parameters it should read directly into the EOF.
From the docs.
% 2. A filename string that identifies the pcap file to read. Setting this input argument
% to a filename string will automatically set the function to work in read mode.
pcap2matlab('', '','filename.pcap')
I already know how to read a pcap file and get the packets it have.B ut how can I write the packets into a new pcap file? I need this to merge two pcap files into one.
As per my comment, libpcap/WinPcap is a library, not a program, so to use libpcap/WinPcap to merge capture files, you'd have to write your own code to do the merging, using libpcap/WinPcap to read the input files and write the output files.
You could use an existing tool, such as tracemerge or Wireshark's mergecap, to merge the captures.
Assuming the goal is to merge two files' packets by time stamp, then, if you wanted to write your own code, you'd:
attempt to open the two files, and fail if you can't;
if the two files have different link-layer header types or snapshot lengths, fail (you'd have to write a pcap-ng file to handle that, and libpcap/WinPcap don't support that yet);
if the files have the same link-layer header types and snapshot lengths, open an output file using one of the pcap_ts (it doesn't matter which one; all the pcap_t does is tell pcap_dump_open() what link-layer header type and snapshot length to use);
and have a loop where you:
if there's no packet already read from the first file, and the first file is still open, read a packet from it - if that gets an EOF, close the first file;
if there's no packet already read from the second file, and the second file is still open, read a packet from it - if that gets an EOF, close the second file;
if you have two packets, write out the one with the older time stamp and mark that packet as no longer being there, so you read another packet from the file from which it came;
if you have only one packet, write it out and mark it as no longer being there, so you read another packet from the file from which it came;
if you have no packets, you're done - exit the loop;
and then, when you exit the loop, close the dump file. At that point, you're done.
This can be done using joincap.
go get -u github.com/assafmo/joincap
To merge 1.pcap and 2.pcap:
joincap 1.pcap 2.pcap > merged.pcap
I wrote joincap to overcome what I believe is bad error handling by mergecap and tcpslice.
For more details go to https://github.com/assafmo/joincap.
Does
pcap_t *pcap_open_offline(const char *fname, char *errbuf)
from libpcap read the whole pcap file into memory? If not so, I have to use tcpslice or similar tools to split pcap file up?
Thanks.
A strange way of wording your question, but I'll try and answer what I can.
pcap_open_offline() takes a .dump file (or similarly named output from tcpdump, tcpslice, or libpcap's pcap_dump_open() + pcap_dump() functions) as an input.
This file is exactly the same in format and function as a live trace of a network device, IE, you can use this pcap_t object in pcap_next, pcap_loop, etc.
Altering a dump file in any way (IE, stripping information or parsing out only what you want with tcpslice or wireshark) will render it unreadable by pcap_open_offline(), as it will not be formatted in the manner of a live packet trace.
However, it does not load the entire file at any one time into memory. It streams the file, as you would stream packets from a live trace.
To summarize: pcap_open_live() opens an unaltered tcpdump/tcpslice dump and reads it like a live stream. It does not load the entire file into its memory, as dumps can get quite large! Instead it just goes through the file only loading one packet's worth of the file at a time.