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How to filter, split or merge pcap files on Linux

If you are a network admin who are involved in testing an intrusion detection system or network access control policy, you may often rely on offline analysis using collected packet dumps. When it comes to storing packet dumps,libpcap’s packet dump format (pcap format) is the most widely used by many open-source packet sniffing and capture programs.

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