TZSP2PCAP(1)

📦 version 0.0~git20191215.4fb8147, in ubuntu stonking

🦋 tzsp2pcap — the manual, but make it cute

okay so bestie, welcome to the tzsp2pcap manual page 💖 it's a User Command (section 1, iykyk), and it's genuinely one of those tiny little tools that just works. no drama, no bloat, just vibes and packet capture. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

tzsp2pcap — it listens for TZSP packets and spits them out in pcap format. that's it. that's the whole job. and it ate 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tzsp2pcap [OPTIONS]

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so tzsp2pcap is a simple utility — and when I say simple I mean it in the best way, lowkey elegant — that listens for TaZmen Sniffer Protocol (TZSP) packets and outputs their contents on stdout in pcap format. 🎀

the way it's been tested with Mikrotik RouterOS products?? iconic. if you've got Mikrotik gear doing the TZSP thing, this is your girl fr fr. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -f — output to stdout, in flush mode. yes bestie, flush mode. no buffering holding your packets hostage 🫶
  • *-o *FILE — output goes to the file you specify instead. your packets, your destination, main character choice 💅
  • *-C *SIZE — rotate the file every SIZE bytes. like, for example, 1000000 gets you 1MB. (yes the example is literally in the original, I'm not making up numbers, I would never 😭)
  • *-G *SECONDS — make a brand new file every SECONDS seconds. time-based rotation, periodt ⏰
  • *-z *COMPRESSION — compress those rotated files. like, for example, gzip. slay 🗜️✨

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

output to wireshark 🦋

tzsp2pcap -f | wireshark -k -i -

pipe it straight into wireshark and watch it go. chef's kiss. 👑

rotate file every 1MB 💖

tzsp2pcap -o "file.pcap" -C 1000000

create new file every 10 seconds 🌸

tzsp2pcap -o "file_%s.pcap" -G 10

not the %s in the filename doing the cute little templating thing. love that for us 🎀

rotate AND compress 🔥

tzsp2pcap -o "file.pcap" -C 1000000 -z gzip

both. at the same time. because why not 💅

ngl bestie, there are no bug notes or warnings in this one, which is honestly a green flag 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Andrew Childs <lorne@cons.org.nz> — thank you for the tool king 🫡💜

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

and that's the whole manual, bestie, no notes 💖 this little page is from tzsp2pcap, February 2026 — stay hydrated, capture responsibly, and go get those packets 🧚✨🍓

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