For the last couple of years, I captured many different network and upper-layer protocols and published the pcaps along with some information and Wireshark screenshots on this blog. However, it always takes me some time to find the correct pcap when I am searching for a concrete protocol example. There are way too many pcaps out there.
This is supposed to change now:
This “Ultimate PCAP” is meant to be a single point of source for Wireshark samples. It summarises all previous ones from my blog, while I will constantly add more packets to this pcap. Currently, it has 90+ different protocols and hundreds of variants, such as IPv6 and legacy IP traffic, different DNS query types, ICMP error codes, decrypted HTTPS sessions, and so on.
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