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by xorrbit 4233 days ago
Not open source = not at all like WireShark, sorry.

And that's a damn shame. I could see a community growing around this kind of thing and adding all kinds of protocol support to it, if only it was open source.
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jnazario 4233 days ago
if you're looking for an OSS variant of this (packet editor with a GUI), have a look at Netdude:

http://netdude.sourceforge.net/

older package, but does basically this.

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lucb1e 4233 days ago
> Copyright 2006, last update June 2007

That sure is what it looks like. But thanks for sharing anyway, interesting project

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wirefloss 4233 days ago
No competition with WireShark is intended. WireEdit is a packet editor, not an analyzer. Can as easily edit a .txt Hex dump of a packet (not yet supported, but easy to do).
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rudolf0 4233 days ago
I will admit that I initially thought this was a Wireshark plugin or related to Wireshark in some fashion, based on the name and the appearance of the GUI on the page.

You may want to put a little disclaimer at the top saying it's not associated or competing with Wireshark.

Pretty cool tool either way.

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pyre 4233 days ago
Don't know if it was just added, but the front page currently has this on it:

  Are you competing with Wireshark?

  No. WireEdit is a packet editor, not an analyzer.
  No real-time packet capture either.
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wirefloss 4233 days ago
Yeh. I added it after the above question was asked. It was asked once, so it obviusly belongs to a FAQ.
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