Unveiling Fedora 39 Tcpreplay 4.5.1 Security Advisory and Key Features
Summary
Tcpreplay is a tool to replay captured network traffic. Currently, tcpreplay
supports pcap (tcpdump) and snoop capture formats. Also included, is tcpprep
a tool to pre-process capture files to allow increased performance under
certain conditions as well as capinfo which provides basic information about
capture files.
Update Information:
Announcing v4.5.1 This release contains contributions from a record number of new contributors. This is greatly appreciated since I am a team of one, and do Tcpreplay maintenance in my spare time. There are many bug fixes and new features. Most notable features: AF_XDP socket support - if you have a newer Linux kernel, you will be able to transmit at line rates without having to install 3rd party kernel modules (e.g. netmap, PF_RING) -w tcpreplay option - this overrides the -i option, and allows you to write to a PCAP file rather than an interface --include and --exclude tcpreplay options - allows replay of a list of specific packet numbers to replay. This may slow things down, so consider using in combination with -w. --fixhdrlen tcpreplay option - added to control action on packet length changes -W tcpreplay option - suppress warnings when replaying SLL2( Linux "cooked" capture encapsulation v2) Haiku support What's Changed Add support for LINUX_SLL2 by @btriller...
Change Log
* Sat Jul 13 2024 Bojan Smojver
References
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2024-740d26aaf7 2024-07-21 02:14:42.426456 Name : tcpreplay Product : Fedora 39 Version : 4.5.1 Release : 1.fc39 URL : http://tcpreplay.appneta.com/ Summary : Replay captured network traffic Description : Tcpreplay is a tool to replay captured network traffic. Currently, tcpreplay supports pcap (tcpdump) and snoop capture formats. Also included, is tcpprep a tool to pre-process capture files to allow increased performance under certain conditions as well as capinfo which provides basic information about capture files.
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-740d26aaf7' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label