Colasoft Packet Builder

Colasoft Packet Builder is useful tool used for creating custom network packets, you can use this tool to check your network protection against attacks and intruders. Colasoft Packet Builder provides you very powerful editing feature, besides common HEX editing raw data, it featuring a Decoding Editor which allows you edit specific protocol field value much easier. In addition to building packets, Colasoft Packet Builder also supports saving packets to packet files and sending packets to network.

To start Colasoft Packet Builder, do one of the followings:

Click Packet Builder icon in Tools tab of the Ribbon (figure below).

Choose Start > All Programs > Colasoft Capsa 7 > Capsa 7.0 Toolset > Packet Builder.

Choose Start > Run, enter "pktbuilder" and click OK.

The Colasoft Packet Builder window appears.

Colasoft Packet Builder contains three panes in main view.

The last two panes collaborate with the Packet List pane. Once a packet selected, Decode Editor and Hex Editor decode the packet and you can just edit the packet in these two panes.

To customize the layout of the three panes, just drag their heads to move.

You can use Colasoft Packet Builder to:

Add or insert new packets

Simply you can add or insert packets from Packet tab of Colasoft Capsa or packet template (ARP, IP, TCP and UDP).

Edit packets

Just click the item or digit to edit packets in Decode Editor pane and Hex Editor pane.

Send packets

Click the Send or Send All button on toolbar to transmit the created packets to network.

Save your packets to disk is also important. You can click Export to save selected packets or all packets to your machine. Now only *.cscpkt format files is supported.

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