Did you know that there is a setting in Wireshark for changing the default save file format from pcapng to pcap? In Wireshark, click Edit, Preferences. Then select Advanced and look for the capture.pcap_ng setting. Change the value to FALSE if you want Wireshark to save packets in the pcap file form[…]
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