Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] how to output only first and last packets of a libpcap file?

["George P Nychis" <gnychis@xxxxxxx>]

By the way Luis, when i try to run the perl scripts it tells me I am missing the Pcap library or something in perl:

Can't locate Net/Pcap.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at first_last line 3.

I've never worked with perl before really, where can i read about installing this missing stuff?

> #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Net::Pcap;
> 
> my $in_file = shift; my $out_file = shift;
> 
> my ($err, $pcap_in, $pcap_out, $pcap_t, $first_pkt, $last_pkt, $pkt, $i);
>  my %hdr; my $n = 0;
> 
> $pcap_in = Net::Pcap::open_offline($in_file, \$err); $pcap_out =
> Net::Pcap::dump_open($pcap_in, "$out_file");
> 
> my $first_pkt =  Net::Pcap::next($pcap_in, \%hdr); $pkt = $first_pkt;
> 
> Net::Pcap::dump($pcap_out, \%hdr, $pkt);
> 
> do { $last_pkt = $pkt; %last_hdr = %hdr; $pkt =  Net::Pcap::next($pcap_in,
> \%hdr); } while (defined $pkt);
> 
> Net::Pcap::dump($last_pkt, \%last_hdr, $last_pkt);
> 
> Net::Pcap::dump_close($pcap_out); Net::Pcap::close($pcap_in);
> 
> 
> On 3/15/06, George P Nychis <gnychis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> bahhh, i was hoping since libpcap files carried a header, the header
>> let it know something that would make this possible without doing
>> scenario 1) :)
>> 
>> I have huge files, i will benchmark and see how long suggestion 1 takes
>> per file
>> 
>> - George
>> 
>> 
>>> George P Nychis wrote:
>>> 
>>>> How can I output the first and last packets of a libpcap file with 
>>>> tethereal?
>>> 
>>> You can't, at least not in a simple fashion.  Tethereal is (by design
>>> and intent) a strict one-pass application, and it doesn't know a
>>> packet is the last packet until it tries to read the next packet and
>>> finds there isn't one, at which point it's too late.
>>> 
>>> You'd have to either
>>> 
>>> 1) read the file once to find out how many packets are in it, and
>>> then try a filter such as
>>> 
>>> frame.number == 1 || frame.number == {number of frames}
>>> 
>>> with {number of frames} replaced with the total number of frames in
>>> the capture
>>> 
>>> or
>>> 
>>> 2) read it into Ethereal, mark the first and last frames, and save
>>> the marked frames.
>>> 
>>> The ambitious reader could perhaps develop a shell script to automate
>>> the first of those suggestions. 
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