NAME
    editcap - Edit and/or translate the format of capture files

SYNOPSYS
    editcap [ -F file format ] [ -T encapsulation type ] [ -r ] [ -v ]
    [ -s snaplen ] [ -t time adjustment ] [ -h ] infile outfile
    [ record# ... ]

DESCRIPTION
    Editcap is a program that reads a saved capture file and writes some or
    all of the packets in that capture file to another capture file.  Edit-
    cap knows how to read libpcap capture files, including those of tcp-
    dump, Ethereal, and other tools that write captures in that format. In
    addition, Editcap can read capture files from snoop and atmsnoop,
    Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Novell LANalyzer, Network General/Network As-
    sociates DOS-based Sniffer (compressed or uncompressed), Microsoft Net-
    work Monitor, AIX's iptrace, Cinco Networks NetXRay, Network Associates
    Windows-based Sniffer, AG Group/WildPackets EtherPeek/Token-
    Peek/AiroPeek, RADCOM's WAN/LAN analyzer, Lucent/Ascend router debug
    output, HP-UX's nettl, the dump output from Toshiba's ISDN routers, the
    output from i4btrace from the ISDN4BSD project, the output in IPLog
    format from the Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System, pppd logs
    (pppdump format), the output from VMS's TCPIPtrace utility, the text
    output from the DBS Etherwatch VMS utility, traffic capture files from
    Visual Networks' Visual UpTime and the output from CoSine L2 debug.
    There is no need to tell Editcap what type of file you are reading; it
    will determine the file type by itself. Editcap is also capable of
    reading any of these file formats if they are compressed using gzip.
    Editcap recognizes this directly from the file; the '.gz' extension is
    not required for this purpose.

    By default, it writes the capture file in libpcap format, and writes
    all of the packets in the capture file to the output file. The -F flag
    can be used to specify the format in which to write the capture file;
    it can write the file in libpcap format (standard libpcap format, a
    modified format used by some patched versions of libpcap, the format
    used by Red Hat Linux 6.1, or the format used by SuSE Linux 6.3), snoop
    format, uncompressed Sniffer format, Microsoft Network Monitor 1.x for-
    mat, the format used by Windows-based versions of the Sniffer software,
    and the format used by Visual Networks' software.

    A list of packet numbers can be specified on the command line; the
    packets with those numbers will not be written to the capture file,
    unless the -r flag is specified, in which case only those packets will
    be written to the capture file. Ranges of packet numbers can be speci-
    fied as start-end, referring to all packets from start to end (removing
    them all if -r isn't specified, including them all if -r is specified).

    If the -s flag is used to specify a snapshot length, frames in the
    input file with more captured data than the specified snapshot length
    will have only the amount of data specified by the snapshot length
    written to the output file. This may be useful if the program that is
    to read the output file cannot handle packets larger than a certain
    size (for example, the versions of snoop in Solaris 2.5.1 and Solaris
    2.6 appear to reject Ethernet frames larger than the standard Ethernet
    MTU, making them incapable of handling gigabit Ethernet captures if
    jumbo frames were used).

    If the -t flag is used to specify a time adjustment, the specified
    adjustment will be applied to all selected frames in the capture file.
    The adjustment is specified as [-]seconds[.fractional seconds]. For
    example, -t 3600 advances the timestamp on selected frames by one hour
    while -t -0.5 reduces the timestamp on selected frames by one-half sec-
    ond. This feature is useful when synchronizing dumps collected on dif-
    ferent machines where the time difference between the two machines is
    known or can be estimated.

    If the -T flag is used to specify an encapsulation type, the encapsula-
    tion type of the output capture file will be forced to the specified
    type, rather than being the type appropriate to the encapsulation type
    of the input capture file. Note that this merely forces the encapsula-
    tion type of the output file to be the specified type; the packet head-
    ers of the packets will not be translated from the encapsulation type
    of the input capture file to the specified encapsulation type (for
    example, it will not translate an Ethernet capture to an FDDI capture
    if an Ethernet capture is read and '-T fddi' is specified).

OPTIONS
    -F Sets the file format of the output capture file.

    -T Sets the packet encapsulation type of the output capture file.

    -r Causes the packets whose packet numbers are specified on the com-
   mand line to be written to the output capture file, and no other
   packets to be written to the output capture file.

    -v Causes editcap to print a number of messages while it's working.

    -s Sets the snapshot length to use when writing the data.

    -t Sets the time adjustment to use on selected frames.

    -h Prints the version and options and exits.

SEE ALSO
    tcpdump(8), pcap(3), ethereal(1),mergecap(1)

NOTES
    Editcap is part of the Ethereal distribution. The latest version of
    Ethereal can be found at http://www.ethereal.com.

AUTHORS
  Original Author
  -------- ------
  Richard Sharpe   <sharpe@ns.aus.com>

  Contributors
  ------------
  Guy Harris   <guy@alum.mit.edu>