etl2pcapng VS pyshark

Compare etl2pcapng vs pyshark and see what are their differences.

etl2pcapng

Utility that converts an .etl file containing a Windows network packet capture into .pcapng format. (by microsoft)

pyshark

Python wrapper for tshark, allowing python packet parsing using wireshark dissectors (by KimiNewt)
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etl2pcapng pyshark
7 5
584 2,123
3.3% -
3.1 3.4
about 2 months ago 22 days ago
C Python
MIT License MIT License
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etl2pcapng

Posts with mentions or reviews of etl2pcapng. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-24.
  • Windows server core, packet captured options? Wireshark etc
    1 project | /r/sysadmin | 3 Oct 2022
    Copy the ETL file to a workstation, then use etl2pcapng converter from Microsoft. (https://github.com/microsoft/etl2pcapng)
  • IT Pro Tuesday #202 - Wireshark etl Tool, Security Podcast, EOL Database & More
    3 projects | /r/ITProTuesday | 24 May 2022
    etl2pcapng allows you to view ndiscap packet captures with Wireshark, thus overcoming the Windows use of etl files intended for ETW-centric tools like Microsoft Message Analyzer. NotAnExpert2020 explains, it "converts a netsh trace start/stop trace into something wireshark can read."
  • Share your greatest free tools
    64 projects | /r/sysadmin | 17 Apr 2022
    https://github.com/microsoft/etl2pcapng - etl2pcapng - converts a netsh trace start/stop trace into something wireshark can read.
  • Wireshark Labs
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2022
  • sniffing a process?
    1 project | /r/networking | 30 Jan 2022
    netsh trace can do this out of the box. With the death of Message Analyzer, the easiest way to get packet data out of the ETL generated is this utility from MS: https://github.com/microsoft/etl2pcapng
  • Capturing network traffic on a PC
    1 project | /r/sysadmin | 22 Jan 2022
    Going to say not wireshark. Use the built in native windows packet capture) and convert it to a pcapng for analysis within wireshark with etl2pcapng.
  • A stupid question regarding UDP traffic
    1 project | /r/networking | 13 Apr 2021
    If you have an older version of Windows Server that doesn't have pktmon on it you can also use the netsh method to capture to an ETL file. - Netsh trace start#start) - Now it used to be that I would convert the ETL file to .cap using Message Analyzer, but Microsoft has retired it and you can't download it anymore. In good news it appears that Microsoft has actually released a converter, https://github.com/microsoft/etl2pcapng, to do exactly this.

pyshark

Posts with mentions or reviews of pyshark. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing etl2pcapng and pyshark you can also consider the following projects:

termshark - A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark

scapy - Scapy: the Python-based interactive packet manipulation program & library. Supports Python 2 & Python 3.

netmon_cli - A simple and lightweight terminal packet sniffer.

Wireshark - Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. ⚠️ GitHub won't let us disable pull requests. ⚠️ THEY WILL BE IGNORED HERE ⚠️ Upload them at GitLab instead.

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

nfstream - NFStream: a Flexible Network Data Analysis Framework.

netsniff-ng - A Swiss army knife for your daily Linux network plumbing.

PF_RING - High-speed packet processing framework

esp_wifi_repeater - A full functional WiFi Repeater (correctly: a WiFi NAT Router)

hotwire - Hotwire allows you to study network traffic of a few popular protocols in a simple way

npcap - Nmap Project's Windows packet capture and transmission library

wifite2 - Rewrite of the popular wireless network auditor, "wifite" - original by @derv82