The authors would like to thank the whole Wireshark team for their assistance. In particular, the authors would like to thank:
Gerald Combs, for initiating the Wireshark project and funding to do this documentation.
Guy Harris, for many helpful hints and a great deal of patience in reviewing this document.
Gilbert Ramirez, for general encouragement and helpful hints along the way.
The authors would also like to thank the following people for their helpful feedback on this document:
Pat Eyler, for his suggestions on improving the example on generating a backtrace.
Martin Regner, for his various suggestions and corrections.
Graeme Hewson, for a lot of grammatical corrections.
The authors would like to acknowledge those man page and README authors for the Wireshark project from who sections of this document borrow heavily:
Scott Renfro from whose mergecap man page Section D.7, “mergecap: Merging multiple capture files into one ” is derived.
Ashok Narayanan from whose text2pcap man page Section D.8, “text2pcap: Converting ASCII hexdumps to network captures ” is derived.
Frank Singleton from whose README.idl2wrs
Section D.9, “idl2wrs:
Creating dissectors from CORBA IDL files
” is derived.