The authors would like to thank the whole Wireshark team for their assistance. In particular, the authors would like to thank:
- Gerald Combs, for initiating the Wireshark project and funding to do this documentation.
- Guy Harris, for many helpful hints and a great deal of patience in reviewing this document.
- Gilbert Ramirez, for general encouragement and helpful hints along the way.
The authors would also like to thank the following people for their helpful feedback on this document:
- Pat Eyler, for his suggestions on improving the example on generating a backtrace.
- Martin Regner, for his various suggestions and corrections.
- Graeme Hewson, for a lot of grammatical corrections.
The authors would like to acknowledge those man page and README authors for the Wireshark project from who sections of this document borrow heavily:
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Scott Renfro from whose
mergecapman page Section D.8, “mergecap: Merging multiple capture files into one” is derived. -
Ashok Narayanan from whose
text2pcapman page Section D.9, “text2pcap: Converting ASCII hexdumps to network captures” is derived.