Hi Bob,

On Wednesday 19 May 2010 18:21:23 Bob McConnell wrote:
> I am looking for some strategic help. I am about to receive several days
> worth of Wireshark captures from two ends of an OpenVPN connection.
> These will show the public view of traffic over that connection. I have
> been asked to determine the variation in transport time between the two
> NICs. I do not expect the two clocks to be in sync, so I think I am
> looking to find the MIN and MAX delta between the timestamps. I can use
> the ACK/SEQ numbers to match the packets, then calculate the time
> difference.
> 
> Is there a Perl parser for pcap binary files?
> 
> The initial goal is to determine if there is more than a 10 second
> difference between MIN and MAX. IF there is, how frequently does it
> reach the high end. Yes, we are having timeout issues with the
> applications talking over this connection.
> 
> Any suggestions?

I think pcap_open_offline in http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Net::Pcap should 
do the trick. Net::Pcap has a good reputation, and I think I also successfully 
did something small with it.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

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