pcapng

The pcap Next Generation Capture File Format

This is the GitHub repository for the pcapng file format draft specification. The specification is currently a work-in-progress.

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The Latest Draft

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Implementations

Some known implementations that read or write the pcapng file format are listed on the wiki.