netdude1

Usage

Version

This manpage is describing Netdude version 0.3.

Overview

Netdude is the NETwork DUmp data Displayer and Editor. It is a GUI-based tool that allows you to make detailed changes to packets in tcpdump tracefiles. You can inspect and modify value of every field protocol headers of supported protocols, all other data can be modified using a hex editor. Protocol support is supplied through protocol plugins, see details below to find out how to obtain a list of the currently installed protocols. Tracefile editing can take place graphically and programmatically, as Netdude also provides a filter plugin mechanism that provides an easy facility for automating operations.

To speed up the process, Netdude also provides a facility to perform live captures on one of the currently up interfaces on the machine, assuming the user has necessary priviliges.

For each trace currently being edited, Netdude constantly communicates with a tcpdump process to update the familiar tcpdump output that corresponds to the trace. This also means that any changes made to your local version of tcpdump are reflected in Netdude.

Netdude offers the following command line options, some of which are intended to be used to report configured directories during e.g. configure scripts etc:

Options

--debug

prints out debugging information (only available if debugging support was compiled in)

--plugindir

prints out the directory in which feature plugins are installed

--includedir

prints out the directory in which plugin authors can find Netdude's .h files

--protodir

prints out the directory in which protocol plugins are installed

--protos

prints out the names and version of all currently installed protocols in a small table

-h, --help

displays this help output

--version

prints out the version info