Packetsquare
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 PacketSquare-Capedit on Fedora |
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| Developer(s) | The PacketSquare team |
| Stable release | 0.0.1 / April 11, 2010 |
| Preview release | r35 / April 29, 2010 |
| Written in | C, GTK+ |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | Packet analyzer |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | www.packetsquare.com |
PacketSquare (CapEdit) is a free and open-source pcap-based network protocol testing tool.[1] It is used for testing network devices (IDS/IPS, firewall, routers switches etc.,), network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education.
Currently PacketSquare-CapEdit runs on Linux, using the GTK+ widget toolkit to implement its user interface, and written in C. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3, PacketSquare-CapEdit is free software.
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[edit] Functionality
PacketSquare-CapEdit works by editing protocol fields of the saved packet capture file and replaying. In addition to editing and replaying it supports many features for extrapolation of captured traffic.
[edit] History
PacketSquare is an open source community started in April 2010 by Vijay Mohan, Sushant Gupta and Anant Dixit for developing computer network testing tools.[2] The Community is currently working on CapEdit, used for testing wide range of network security and monitoring products.
[edit] Features
- Currently supports pcap standard packet capture format, as used by tcpdump, Wireshark, and other programs.
- Protocols supported: Ethernet II, VLAN, MPLS, ARP, IPv4, IPv6, ICMPv4, IGMPv3, GRE, IP-in-IP, UDP and TCP.[3]
- Protocol field value modification.
- Packet deletion.
- Packet duplication.
- Packet reordering.
- Fragmentation of packets.
- VLAN, MPLS tags can be added to the packets.
- TCP and UDP stream-based field value modification.
- IP and MAC address find and replace.
- Auto checksum for IP, ICMP, IGMP, TCP and UDP protocols.
- Interface selection for sending packets.
- Option for sending a single selected packet or all packets.
- Pcap edit and replay.
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