How To Install tcpreplay on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpreplay on Rocky Linux 8.
What is tcpreplay
Tcpreplay is a tool to replay captured network traffic. Currently, tcpreplay supports pcap (tcpdump) and snoop capture formats. Also included, is tcpprep a tool to pre-process capture files to allow increased performance under certain conditions as well as capinfo which provides basic information about capture files.
We can use yum or dnf to install tcpreplay on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tcpreplay.
Install tcpreplay on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install tcpreplay using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tcpreplay
Install tcpreplay on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install tcpreplay using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tcpreplay
How To Uninstall tcpreplay on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the tcpreplay package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tcpreplay
tcpreplay Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/tcpbridge
/usr/bin/tcpcapinfo
/usr/bin/tcpliveplay
/usr/bin/tcpprep
/usr/bin/tcpreplay
/usr/bin/tcpreplay-edit
/usr/bin/tcprewrite
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/f5b497706d1ffa65ca43b857de9564a7a945c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/ba6e87406dd9fa98904d94c8de9561b0b9dfbc
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/87d14e801375420e967adf0fccfb858f5ba9d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/ed12b2fd2c283ffbe89d17e4439491b9a089a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/06207305f0c1c4570c37205fe9f610a5219190
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/92638157f992fc3ee6e95d10e529010ed25453
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/c88aa255a7c7b2288a86e7c7a1f53ce0ba1f51
/usr/share/doc/tcpreplay
/usr/share/doc/tcpreplay/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/tcpreplay/CREDIT
/usr/share/doc/tcpreplay/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/tcpreplay/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/tcpreplay/TODO
/usr/share/doc/tcpreplay/Win32Readme.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/tcpbridge.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tcpcapinfo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tcpliveplay.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tcpprep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tcpreplay-edit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tcpreplay.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tcprewrite.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpreplay on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
