Top 4 C pcapng Projects

tcpdump

2 2,546 9.5 C

the TCPdump network dissector

Project mention: How do I debug a LAN connection issue on Linux | /r/techsupport | 2023-06-09

libpcap

10 2,514 9.6 C

the LIBpcap interface to various kernel packet capture mechanism

Project mention: How do remote interfaces work in wireshark? | /r/wireshark | 2023-06-07

As long as your custom service used the rpcap protocol I'd expect it to be possible. You may find this GitHub page informative, since it includes some rpcap source code and one of the main Wireshark developers appears to be a contributor there.

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hcxtools

6 1,872 9.1 C

A small set of tools to convert packets from capture files to hash files for use with Hashcat or John the Ripper.

Project mention: How to capture a handshake, I own a macOS | /r/hacking | 2023-05-16

. . .´ · . . · `. wifite 2.2.5 : : : (¯) : : : automated wireless auditor `. · ` /¯\ ´ · .´ https://github.com/derv82/wifite2 ` /¯¯¯\ ´ [!] Error: Required app iwconfig was not found. install @ apt-get install wireless-tools [!] Warning: Recommended app bully was not found. install @ https://github.com/aanarchyy/bully [!] Warning: Recommended app pyrit was not found. install @ https://github.com/JPaulMora/Pyrit/wiki [!] Warning: Recommended app hcxdumptool was not found. install @ https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxdumptool [!] Warning: Recommended app hcxpcaptool was not found. install @ https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxtools [!] At least 1 Required app is missing. Wifite needs Required apps to run main:~ lung$

hcxdumptool

11 1,716 9.6 C

Small tool to capture packets from wlan devices.

Project mention: What linux tool should I use to dump wireless/wifi packets to a file for later analysis with Wireshark? Dumpcap, hcxdumptool, tcpdump, something else? | /r/HowToHack | 2023-11-05

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).