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Select playback device - help?

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Hey folks. I have absolutely zero experience with this stuff, and I can't manage to find any tutorials.

My end goal is replay a single captured packet I saved with wireshark (managed that just fine, saved as .pcap). I'm trying to do this with playcap. I open the file and it prompts me to select a playback device. Is this "playback device" some sort of hardware, or a program?

I apologize if this is a really stupid question, but the only devices listed are Windows and Hamachi for me; I've searched hard and found a few screenshots of other people at this dialog, and it shows various capture devices and such, and I'm just really not sure what I need to replay this packet.

asked 22 Jul '13, 12:14

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I open the file and it prompts me to select a playback device. Is this "playback device" some sort of hardware, or a program?

The playback device is the network interface where you want the tool to send that packet out (playback).

http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/2009/12/playcap_playback_for_wireshark_capture_files_by_joke_snelders.html

Regards
Kurt

answered 22 Jul '13, 14:30

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edited 22 Jul '13, 14:30