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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] merge pcap from two interfaces

From: luke devon <luke_devon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 22:56:01 +0000 (UTC)
Hi Chris, 

Thank you for the information. I will have a look how to fix those extra steps in my requirements.

Thank you once again for your guidance and support.

Br
Luke.



On Monday, 14 May 2018, 12:15:18 AM GMT+8, Maynard, Chris <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxx> wrote:


Neither dumpcap nor tshark support on-the-fly compression (yet)[1], so unfortunately you’ll have to somehow solve that problem yourself.

 

As for the timestamp, the format is fixed so if you want to change it, you’ll have to come up with your own solution here too.

 

From: luke devon [mailto:luke_devon@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2018 6:00 AM
To: Community support list for Wireshark <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Maynard, Chris <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] merge pcap from two interfaces

 

Hi Chris, 

 

I was able to execute the following command. syntaxes are same for the tshark and dumpcap.

 

dumpcap -i enp0s3 -i enp0s8 -b duration:15 -w /usr/etc/enp0s3_enp0s8.pcap 

 

output as follows;

 

enp0s3_enp0s8_00001_20180513174130.pcap

enp0s3_enp0s8_00002_20180513174145.pcap

 

every 15sec, the file name is rolling out.

 

1. Can you please guide me, how to make the file compressed? for example; enp0s3_enp0s8_00001_20180513174130.tar.gz

2. also can I change the format of the timestamp in the file name?  Something similar to this --> trace_%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S.pcap

 

 

I was using following tcpdump command to capture, adding the timestamp and compressing the traces.

 

tcpdump -i eno2 -s 0 -G 15 -w '/test/Network_%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S.pcap' -Z root -z gzip

 

But I cant use this command continuously as it has limitations to capture multiple interface same time in a single command.

 

Thanks & Regards

Luke.

 

 

 

On Sunday, 13 May 2018, 10:48:28 AM GMT+8, luke devon via Wireshark-users <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

 

Hi Chris,

 

Thank you so much for the guidance.

 

May I know, can we use tshark to rotate the traces every 15 sec? and can we compress into tar.gz the completed dump?

 

Regards

Luke

 

On Sunday, 13 May 2018, 1:08:32 AM GMT+8, Maynard, Chris <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxx> wrote:

 

 

Do you have to use tcpdump?  If you have tshark available, then you can capture on both interfaces at the same time without the need to merge separate capture files at all.  For example:

 

tshark -i eth0 -i eth1 –w eth0_eth1.pcapng

 

Refer to the tshark[1] (or dumpcap[2]) man pages for more information.

- Chris

[1]: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/tshark.html

[2]: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/dumpcap.html

 

 

From: Wireshark-users [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of luke devon via Wireshark-users
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2018 8:17 AM
To: Community support list for Wireshark <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: luke devon <luke_devon@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] merge pcap from two interfaces

 

Hi Abhik, 

 

 

Thank you for the reply.

 

The reason is, the server got few more interfaces too. I want to capture specifically etho and etho1, Not other interfaces. That's why I can't use "-i any".

 

Regards

Luke

 

On Saturday, 12 May 2018, 6:38:55 PM GMT+8, Abhik Sarkar <sarkar.abhik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

 

Alternately, run tcpdump with "-i any" to have the capture for all interfaces in the same file (unless you have good reason to keep them separate, of course).

Regards,

Abhik

 

On 12 May 2018 at 14:14, luke devon via Wireshark-users <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi 

 

I have a server which has multiple ethernet interfaces and carrying network traffic to the system. every 15sec, roll out to the next tcpdump. Likewise, it will generate 4 - pcap file in a minute. 

 

eth0 will generate 4 pcap files

eth1 will generate 4 pap files.

 

I wanna merge respective etho and eth1 files by matching with the time stamp.

 

can it be done? Please help.

 

Thank you

Luke 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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