ParsePcapFile Method

Parses the specified pcap file.

Syntax

ipmonitor.parsePcapFile(fileName, [callback])

Callback

The 'callback' parameter specifies a function which will be called when the operation completes (or an error is encountered). If the 'callback' parameter is not specified, then the method will block and will not return until the operation completes (or an error is encountered).

The callback for this method is defined as:

function(err){ }

'err' is the error that occurred. If there was no error, then 'err' is 'null'.

'err' has 2 properties which hold detailed information:

err.code
err.message

Remarks

This method parses the specified pcap (packet capture) file and fires events as if the traffic were received directly.

The class supports both the standard pcap and the newer pcap-ng file formats used by a variety of popular network capture tools. When calling this method the file will be parsed and the IPPacket event will fire for each parsed packet.