pyshark VS etl2pcapng

Compare pyshark vs etl2pcapng and see what are their differences.

pyshark

Python wrapper for tshark, allowing python packet parsing using wireshark dissectors (by KimiNewt)

etl2pcapng

Utility that converts an .etl file containing a Windows network packet capture into .pcapng format. (by microsoft)
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pyshark etl2pcapng
5 7
2,123 584
- 3.3%
3.4 3.1
25 days ago about 2 months ago
Python C
MIT License MIT License
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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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

termshark - A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark

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.

netmon_cli - A simple and lightweight terminal packet sniffer.

nfstream - NFStream: a Flexible Network Data Analysis Framework.

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

PF_RING - High-speed packet processing framework

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

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

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

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

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