Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Tool to compare dumps from two hosts and highlight inconsi

From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:53:49 +0100
On 19 mrt 2010, at 20:21, Jeff Morriss wrote:

> Kamens, Jonathan wrote:
>> In a nutshell, I want to capture TCP packets on two hosts and then run 
>> the two packet captures through a tool which analyzes both sides of the 
>> connection and highlights anomalies.  The one I'm most interested in is 
>> packets that were sent by one side and never received by the other.
>> 
>> Does anything like this exist?
> 
> I think pcapdiff is supposed to do that:
> 
> http://www.eff.org/testyourisp/pcapdiff/

And wireshark (a recent development version) is also capable of comparing tracefiles. See the following bugs:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2589
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3724

Cheers,


Sake