The authors would like to thank the whole Wireshark team for their assistance. In particular, the authors would like to thank:
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Gerald Combs, for initiating the Wireshark project and funding to do this documentation.
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Guy Harris, for many helpful hints and a great deal of patience in reviewing this document.
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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:
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Pat Eyler, for his suggestions on improving the example on generating a backtrace.
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Martin Regner, for his various suggestions and corrections.
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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 mergecap man page Section D.8, “mergecap: Merging multiple capture files into one ” is derived.
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Ashok Narayanan from whose text2pcap man page Section D.9, “text2pcap: Converting ASCII hexdumps to network captures ” is derived.
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Frank Singleton from whose
README.idl2wrsSection D.10, “idl2wrs: Creating dissectors from CORBA IDL files ” is derived.