tracediff(1)

tracediff1

Find and print differences between two traces

Usage

tracediff [-m maxdiff] firsturi seconduri

Overview

tracediff compares two trace files and prints the details of packets that differ to standard output. This is useful for finding packets that are present in one trace but not another or for finding conversion or snapping errors.

-m maxdiff

stop processing after displaying 'maxdiff' differences

Examples

tracediff -m 10 erf:/traces/orig.erf.gz pcapfile:/traces/convert.pcap.gz

Releases

8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7–13

Bugs

Not exactly a bug, but the contents of the framing headers (i.e. the PCAP or ERF encapsulation) are not compared.

Authors

Shane Alcock <[email protected]>

From libtrace-tools 3.0.22-0.2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.