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PCAP Capture File Format
draft-ietf-opsawg-pcap-00

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Active".
Expired & archived
Authors Guy Harris , Michael Richardson
Last updated 2022-04-28 (Latest revision 2021-10-25)
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Abstract

This document describes the format used by the libpcap library to record captured packets to a file. Programs using the libpcap library to read and write those files, and thus reading and writing files in that format, include tcpdump.

Authors

Guy Harris
Michael Richardson

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