Using the Demo Server with the RTTV - PSASCapstone2013/rttv GitHub Wiki

The Demo Server opens a *pcap file containing captured network packets and sends them through a network socket. The Demo Server and further information can be found here: https://github.com/PSASCapstone2013/DemoServer

Required Software

The dpkt Python packet creation/parsing library available for download from: http://code.google.com/p/dpkt/

Using the Demo Server

Start the Demo Server by running server.py with any of the following command line arguements

  • -h,--help show the help message and exit
  • -f FILENAME,--f FILENAME where FILENAME refers to a pcap file containing the log to be viewed
  • -s SKIP_TIME,--skip=SKIP_TIME where SKIP_TIME is the time in seconds to skip at the beginning to the log
  • -t,--fast send packets intermediately after one another ignoring time intervals
  • -d,--debug show debug messages