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Tcpreplay 3.x FAQ
Aaron Turner
http://tcpreplay.sourceforge.net/
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General Info
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What is this FAQ for?
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What tools come with tcpreplay?
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What tools no longer come with Tcpreplay?
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How can I get tcpreplay's source?
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What requirements does tcpreplay have?
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Are there binaries available?
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Is there a Microsoft Windows port?
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How is tcpreplay licensed?
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What is tcpreplay?
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What are some uses for tcpreplay?
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What are some uses for flowreplay?
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What is the history of tcpreplay?
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Bugs, Feature Requests, and Patches
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Where can I get help, report bugs or contact the developers?
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What information should I provide when I report a bug?
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I have a feature request, what should I do?
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I've written a patch for tcpreplay, how can I submit it?
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Patch requirements
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Understanding tcpprep
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What is tcpprep?
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How does tcpprep work?
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Does tcpprep modify my libpcap file?
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Why use tcpprep?
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Can a cache file be used for multiple (different) libpcap files?
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Why would I want to use tcpreplay with two network cards?
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How big are the cache files?
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Common Error and Warning Messages
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Can't open eth0: libnet_select_device(): Can't find interface eth0
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Can't open lo: libnet_select_device(): Can't find interface lo
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Can't open eth0: UID != 0
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100000 write attempts failed from full buffers and were repeated
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Unable to process test.cache: cache file version missmatch
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Skipping SLL loopback packet.
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Packet length (8892) is greater then MTU; skipping packet.
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Common Questions from Users
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Why is tcpreplay not sending all the packets?
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Can tcpreplay read gzip/bzip2 compressed files?
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How fast can tcpreplay send packets?
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Is tcpreplay stateful?
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Testing Methodologies
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Required Libraries and Tools
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Libpcap
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Libnet
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Libpcapnav
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Tcpdump
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Other pcap tools available
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Tools to capture network traffic or decode pcap files
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Tools to edit pcap files
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Other useful tools
Aaron Turner 2006-08-07
