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  41. <H1 ALIGN="CENTER">Tcpreplay 3.x FAQ</H1>
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  43. <P ALIGN="CENTER"><STRONG>Aaron Turner</STRONG></P>
  44. <P ALIGN="CENTER"><I>http://tcpreplay.sourceforge.net/</I></P>
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  52. <LI><A NAME="tex2html14"
  53. HREF="node2.html"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN> General Info</A>
  54. <UL>
  55. <LI><A NAME="tex2html15"
  56. HREF="node2.html#SECTION00021000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN> What is this FAQ for?</A>
  57. <LI><A NAME="tex2html16"
  58. HREF="node2.html#SECTION00022000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN> What tools come with tcpreplay?</A>
  59. <LI><A NAME="tex2html17"
  60. HREF="node2.html#SECTION00023000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">3</SPAN> What tools no longer come with Tcpreplay?</A>
  61. <LI><A NAME="tex2html18"
  62. HREF="node2.html#SECTION00024000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">4</SPAN> How can I get tcpreplay's source?</A>
  63. <LI><A NAME="tex2html19"
  64. HREF="node2.html#SECTION00025000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">5</SPAN> What requirements does tcpreplay have?</A>
  65. <LI><A NAME="tex2html20"
  66. HREF="node2.html#SECTION00026000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">6</SPAN> Are there binaries available?</A>
  67. <LI><A NAME="tex2html21"
  68. HREF="node2.html#SECTION00027000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">7</SPAN> Is there a Microsoft Windows port?</A>
  69. <LI><A NAME="tex2html22"
  70. HREF="node2.html#SECTION00028000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">8</SPAN> How is tcpreplay licensed?</A>
  71. <LI><A NAME="tex2html23"
  72. HREF="node2.html#SECTION00029000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">9</SPAN> What is tcpreplay?</A>
  73. <LI><A NAME="tex2html24"
  74. HREF="node2.html#SECTION000210000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">10</SPAN> What are some uses for tcpreplay?</A>
  75. <LI><A NAME="tex2html25"
  76. HREF="node2.html#SECTION000211000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">11</SPAN> What are some uses for flowreplay?</A>
  77. <LI><A NAME="tex2html26"
  78. HREF="node2.html#SECTION000212000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">12</SPAN> What is the history of tcpreplay?</A>
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  81. <LI><A NAME="tex2html27"
  82. HREF="node3.html"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN> Bugs, Feature Requests, and Patches</A>
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  84. <LI><A NAME="tex2html28"
  85. HREF="node3.html#SECTION00031000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN> Where can I get help, report bugs or contact the developers?</A>
  86. <LI><A NAME="tex2html29"
  87. HREF="node3.html#SECTION00032000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN> What information should I provide when I report a bug?</A>
  88. <LI><A NAME="tex2html30"
  89. HREF="node3.html#SECTION00033000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">3</SPAN> I have a feature request, what should I do?</A>
  90. <LI><A NAME="tex2html31"
  91. HREF="node3.html#SECTION00034000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">4</SPAN> I've written a patch for tcpreplay, how can I submit it?</A>
  92. <LI><A NAME="tex2html32"
  93. HREF="node3.html#SECTION00035000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">5</SPAN> Patch requirements</A>
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  96. <LI><A NAME="tex2html33"
  97. HREF="node4.html"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">3</SPAN> Understanding tcpprep</A>
  98. <UL>
  99. <LI><A NAME="tex2html34"
  100. HREF="node4.html#SECTION00041000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">3</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN> What is tcpprep?</A>
  101. <LI><A NAME="tex2html35"
  102. HREF="node4.html#SECTION00042000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">3</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN> How does tcpprep work? </A>
  103. <LI><A NAME="tex2html36"
  104. HREF="node4.html#SECTION00043000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">3</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">3</SPAN> Does tcpprep modify my libpcap file?</A>
  105. <LI><A NAME="tex2html37"
  106. HREF="node4.html#SECTION00044000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">3</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">4</SPAN> Why use tcpprep?</A>
  107. <LI><A NAME="tex2html38"
  108. HREF="node4.html#SECTION00045000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">3</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">5</SPAN> Can a cache file be used for multiple (different) libpcap files? </A>
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  110. HREF="node4.html#SECTION00046000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">3</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">6</SPAN> Why would I want to use tcpreplay with two network cards? </A>
  111. <LI><A NAME="tex2html40"
  112. HREF="node4.html#SECTION00047000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">3</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">7</SPAN> How big are the cache files?</A>
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  116. HREF="node5.html"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">4</SPAN> Common Error and Warning Messages</A>
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  118. <LI><A NAME="tex2html42"
  119. HREF="node5.html#SECTION00051000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">4</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN> Can't open eth0: libnet_select_device(): Can't find interface eth0</A>
  120. <LI><A NAME="tex2html43"
  121. HREF="node5.html#SECTION00052000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">4</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN> Can't open lo: libnet_select_device(): Can't find interface lo</A>
  122. <LI><A NAME="tex2html44"
  123. HREF="node5.html#SECTION00053000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">4</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">3</SPAN> Can't open eth0: UID != 0</A>
  124. <LI><A NAME="tex2html45"
  125. HREF="node5.html#SECTION00054000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">4</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">4</SPAN> 100000 write attempts failed from full buffers and were repeated</A>
  126. <LI><A NAME="tex2html46"
  127. HREF="node5.html#SECTION00055000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">4</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">5</SPAN> Unable to process test.cache: cache file version missmatch</A>
  128. <LI><A NAME="tex2html47"
  129. HREF="node5.html#SECTION00056000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">4</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">6</SPAN> Skipping SLL loopback packet.</A>
  130. <LI><A NAME="tex2html48"
  131. HREF="node5.html#SECTION00057000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">4</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">7</SPAN> Packet length (8892) is greater then MTU; skipping packet.</A>
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  134. <LI><A NAME="tex2html49"
  135. HREF="node6.html"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">5</SPAN> Common Questions from Users</A>
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  137. <LI><A NAME="tex2html50"
  138. HREF="node6.html#SECTION00061000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">5</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN> Why is tcpreplay not sending all the packets?</A>
  139. <LI><A NAME="tex2html51"
  140. HREF="node6.html#SECTION00062000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">5</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN> Can tcpreplay read gzip/bzip2 compressed files?</A>
  141. <LI><A NAME="tex2html52"
  142. HREF="node6.html#SECTION00063000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">5</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">3</SPAN> How fast can tcpreplay send packets?</A>
  143. <LI><A NAME="tex2html53"
  144. HREF="node6.html#SECTION00064000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">5</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">4</SPAN> Is tcpreplay stateful?</A>
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  147. <LI><A NAME="tex2html54"
  148. HREF="node7.html"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">6</SPAN> Testing Methodologies</A>
  149. <LI><A NAME="tex2html55"
  150. HREF="node8.html"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">7</SPAN> Required Libraries and Tools</A>
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  152. <LI><A NAME="tex2html56"
  153. HREF="node8.html#SECTION00081000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">7</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN> Libpcap</A>
  154. <LI><A NAME="tex2html57"
  155. HREF="node8.html#SECTION00082000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">7</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN> Libnet</A>
  156. <LI><A NAME="tex2html58"
  157. HREF="node8.html#SECTION00083000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">7</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">3</SPAN> Libpcapnav</A>
  158. <LI><A NAME="tex2html59"
  159. HREF="node8.html#SECTION00084000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">7</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">4</SPAN> Tcpdump</A>
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  162. <LI><A NAME="tex2html60"
  163. HREF="node9.html"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">8</SPAN> Other pcap tools available</A>
  164. <UL>
  165. <LI><A NAME="tex2html61"
  166. HREF="node9.html#SECTION00091000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">8</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">1</SPAN> Tools to capture network traffic or decode pcap files</A>
  167. <LI><A NAME="tex2html62"
  168. HREF="node9.html#SECTION00092000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">8</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">2</SPAN> Tools to edit pcap files</A>
  169. <LI><A NAME="tex2html63"
  170. HREF="node9.html#SECTION00093000000000000000"><SPAN CLASS="arabic">8</SPAN>.<SPAN CLASS="arabic">3</SPAN> Other useful tools</A>
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  175. Aaron Turner
  176. 2006-08-07
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