On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Markus Amend <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think a pcap-indexer in netsniff-ng is missing. Netsniff-ng is a great
> tool with a lot of performance in handling (especially in recording) network
> traffic, but it's not performant to get the informations out of it. An
> indexer could help to get informations faster especially when the same
> network traffic is examined again and again. Also an intelligent search
> instead of bpf is possible :-)
>
> We should think about hacking something like a pcap-indexer in the future.

Agreed.

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im
> Auftrag von Daniel Borkmann
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. Oktober 2012 14:57
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: [netsniff-ng] PCAP Indexing?
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:49 AM, TOoSmOotH <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Is it possible to index PCAP as it writes it to disk? I really like
>>>> netsniff-ng as it scales well with high traffic but the downside to
>>>> that is a lot of pcap. This means searching through the pcap takes a
>>>> long time especially when there are lots of writes going on.
>>>
>>> Thanks for using netsniff-ng!
>>>
>>> Currently, there is no such a feature built-in. I agree that on huge
>>> pcap files, searching through it might be a bit of a pain, even in
>>> case of an efficient BPF filter for an offline analysis. There is
>>> such as thing as pcapIndex [1], but from what I know seems to be
> patented.
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.sigcomm.org/node/3230
>>
>> Let me think about it and maybe in short till mid-term future we will
>> come up with a solution.
>
> For now, maybe https://github.com/taterhead/PCAP-Index can be of help for
> you.
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