Colasoft Packet Player is a replay tool which allows you to open
captured packet trace file and playback in the network. Colasoft Packet
Player supports many packet trace file formats created by many sniffer
software, such as Colasoft Capsa, Ethereal, Network General Sniffer and
WildPackets EtherPeek/OmniPeek etc, it also support burst mode and loop
sending feature.
There are three ways to invoke Colasoft
Packet Player:
- Click the Colasoft Packet Player command in the Tools
menu.
- Open the Start button of Windows and choose All
Programs. Click the Colasoft Packet Player from the Colasoft
Capsa application.
- Choose the Run… command from the Start button of
Windows, input PktPlayer.exe command and click the Enter key.

- Adapter
Users can define a adapter for sending packet from if there are
more than one adapters in the PC. Clicks the "Select" button on the
right of "Adapter:" to open the Select Adapter dialog,
chooses an adapter from the combo box. The window under the combo
box will display the detailed information of the selected adapter.

- Packet File
Defines the packet file you want to send.
Packet player supports Colasoft Capsa Packet File (.cscpkt) and Raw
Packet File (.rawpkt) formats now, you can select a packet file by
clicking the
button. Users also can replay a packet file have been sent out
before from the combo box.
- Bust Mode
Checks this option, Colasoft Packet Builder will send packets
one after another without intermission. If you want to send packet
as the original delta time, please do not check this option.
- Loop Sending
Defines the repeated times of the sending execution, one time in
default. Please enter zero if you want to keep sending packets until
pause or stop it manually.
- Delay Between Loops
Appoints the interval between every loop if you defined the loop
times more than one. Colasoft Packet Builder will send without
interval between every loop in default.
- Total Packets
Displays the number of sending packets.
- Packets Sent
Shows the number of packets have been sent successfully. Colasoft
Packet Builder will display the the packets sent unsuccessfully too
if there is a packet did not sent out.
- Progress
The process bar simply presents an overview of the sending
process you are engaged in at the moment.
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