PCAP Surgery Alternatives

PCAP Surgery is described as 'A visual PCAP and PCAPNG cleanup tool for trimming, redacting, repairing, annotating, and exporting safer packet evidence for support handoffs' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are four alternatives to PCAP Surgery for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Homebrew and Chocolatey apps. The best PCAP Surgery alternative is Wireshark, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PCAP Surgery are babyshark, Packémon and TraceWrangler.

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  1. Wireshark icon
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    Wireshark is a premier network protocol analyzer used globally in industries and education, offering multi-platform support, deep protocol inspection, powerful display filters, and VoIP analysis. It allows both live capture and offline analysis, supporting various networks and protocols.

    58 Wireshark alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Arch Linux
    • Flathub
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
    • Fedora
    • FreeBSD
     
  2. TUI tool for generating packets of arbitrary input and monitoring packets on any network interfaces (default: eth0). The list of interfaces to be specified is output when packemon --interfaces is run. This tool works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
     
  3. TraceWrangler is a network capture file toolkit running on Windows (or on Linux, using WINE) that supports PCAP as well as the new PCAPng file format, which is now the standard file format used by Wireshark.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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