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This wiki tracks known implementations of pcapng.

Application Language Read Write Default Comment
Wireshark C Yes Yes Yes (since 1.8) Also includes tshark, mergecap, reordercap, editcap, capinfos
NetworkMiner .NET Yes ? ? --
[Tracewrangler] (http://www.tracewrangler.com/) Delphi Yes Yes Yes File size for reading files is limited to 2GB at the moment
CommView and CommView for WiFi ? Yes Yes No --
CloudShark -- Yes Yes Yes Exports as pcapng
pcapfix C Yes Yes Yes writes PCAPng when input file is PCAPng; otherwise PCAPng can be forced with a parameter
Corelatus GTH C, Erlang No Yes Yes --
NetworkMiner Unknown Yes Unknown Unknown --
CapLoader MS .NET Yes Yes Unknown --
pcapng.com N/A Yes N/A Yes A web page to convert pcapng to pcap
thongs C No Yes Yes --
Apple's tcpdump C Yes Yes No Apple's variant of tcpdump, using their variant of libpcap, which includes APSL-licensed code
tcpreplay C Yes No No Uses libpcap to read pcapng
pktdump Perl Yes No --
scapy Python3 Yes No Yes This is a fork of scapy, and only this fork handles pcapng
OmniPeek Unknown Yes Yes Unknown --
Library Language License Read Write Comment
libpcap C BSD Yes No (Work in Progress) Programs such as tcpdump using libpcap can thus read pcap-ng
Apple's libpcap C BSD/APSL Yes Yes Apple's variant of libpcap; their changes are under the APSL license
rshk Python Apache Yes No --
awalsh128 C# BSD Yes No --
kornholi Rust MIT Yes No --
richo Rust MIT Yes No --
akinaru Java MIT Yes No --
ryrychj C# MIT Yes Yes --
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