Appendix C. Related command line tools

Table of Contents

C.1. Introduction
C.2. tcpdump: Capturing with tcpdump for viewing with Ethereal
C.3. tethereal: Terminal-based Ethereal
C.4. capinfos: Print information about capture files
C.5. editcap: Edit capture files
C.6. mergecap: Merging multiple capture files into one
C.7. text2pcap: Converting ASCII hexdumps to network captures
C.8. idl2eth: Creating dissectors from Corba IDL files
C.8.1. What is it?
C.8.2. Why do this?
C.8.3. How to use idl2eth
C.8.4. TODO
C.8.5. Limitations
C.8.6. Notes

C.1. Introduction

Beside the Ethereal GUI application, there are some command line tools, which can be helpful for doing some more specialized things. These tools will be described in this chapter.