tcpcapinfo - Man Page

Pcap file dissector for debugging broken pcap files

Synopsis

tcpcapinfo [OPTION]... <pcap_file(s)>

Description

tcpcapinfo is a tool for decoding the structure of a pcap(3) file with a focus on finding broken pcap files and determining how two related pcap files might differ.

tcpcapinfo will first print out the pcap_file_header_t in human readable form followed by a per-packet summary including the pcap_pkthdr_t and simple checksum value of the packet.

Options

-d,  --dbug=number

Enable debugging output. Range: 0 to 5. Default: 0.

If configured with --enable-debug, then you can specify a verbosity level for debugging output.  Higher numbers increase verbosity.

-V,  --version

Print version information.

-H,  --help

Display usage information and exit.

--more-help

Pass the extended usage information through a pager.

Exit Status

One of the following exit values will be returned:

0 (EXIT_SUCCESS)

Successful program execution.

1 (EXIT_FAILURE)

The operation failed or the command syntax was not valid.

70 (EX_SOFTWARE)

libopts had an internal operational error. Please report it to autogen-users@lists.sourceforge.net. Thank you.

Authors

Copyright 2000-2012 Aaron Turner

Copyright 2013 Fred Klassen - AppNeta by Broadcom

For support please use the tcpreplay-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list.

The latest version of this software is always available from: http://tcpreplay.appneta.com/

Bugs

Please send bug reports to: tcpreplay-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Notes

This manual page was generated from the tcpcapinfo option definitions.

Info

2026-07-29 Tcpreplay Suite