PacketSafari

PCAP NG

PCAPng provides benefits over the legacy PCAP format.
  • Metadata: per-packet and per-trace comments, interface information
  • Nanosecond timestamps
  • Name resolution data
  • Dropped frame counters
  • Ability to bundle TLS session keys within the file
  • Saving packets from multiple NICs

PacketSafari supports both .pcap and .pcapng, but .pcapng is preferred because the extra metadata improves search, comments, and decryption workflows.