pcapfix Command Examples

Repair damaged or corrupted PCAP and PcapNG files. More information: https://f00l.de/pcapfix/.

• Repair a PCAP/PCapNG file (Note: for PCAP files, only the first 262144 bytes of each packet are scanned):

pcapfix {{path/to/file.pcapng}}

• Repair an entire PCAP file:

pcapfix --deep-scan {{path/to/file.pcap}}

• Repair a PCAP/PcapNG file and write the repaired file to the specified location:

pcapfix --outfile {{path/to/repaired.pcap}} {{path/to/file.pcap}}

• Treat the specified file as a PcapNG file, ignoring automatic recognition:

pcapfix --pcapng {{path/to/file.pcapng}}

• Repair a file and show the process in detail:

pcapfix --verbose {{path/to/file.pcap}}