How To Install tcpreplay on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpreplay
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tcpreplay.
Install tcpreplay on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install tcpreplay
using yum
by running the following command:
Install tcpreplay on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install tcpreplay
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall tcpreplay on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the tcpreplay
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcpreplay
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.