wireshark

USE flags

• androiddump - Install androiddump, an extcap interface to capture from Android devices
• bcg729 - Use media-libs/bcg729 for G.729 codec support in RTP Player
• brotli - Use app-arch/brotli for compression/decompression
• capinfos - Install capinfos, to print information about capture files
• caps - Use Linux capabilities library to control privilege
• captype - Install captype, to print the file types of capture files
• ciscodump - Install ciscodump, extcap interface to capture from a remote Cisco router
• cpu_flags_x86_sse4_2 - Enable SSE4.2 instruction support
• dftest - Install dftest, to display filter byte-code, for debugging dfilter routines
• doc - Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally
• dpauxmon - Install dpauxmon, an external capture interface (extcap) that captures DisplayPort AUX channel data from linux kernel drivers
• dumpcap - Install dumpcap, to dump network traffic from inside wireshark
• editcap - Install editcap, to edit and/or translate the format of capture files
• filecaps - Use Linux file capabilities to control privilege rather than set*id (this is orthogonal to USE=caps which uses capabilities at runtime e.g. libcap)
• geoip - Add geoip support for country and city lookup based on IPs
• gnutls - Prefer net-libs/gnutls as SSL/TLS provider (ineffective with USE=-ssl)
• gtk - Add support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit)
• http2 - Use net-libs/nghttp2 for HTTP/2 support
• ilbc - Build with iLBC support in RTP Player using media-libs/libilbc
• ipv6 - Add support for IP version 6
• kerberos - Add kerberos support
• libxml2 - Use dev-libs/libxml2 for handling XML configuration in dissectors
• lto - Enable link time optimization
• lua - Enable Lua scripting support
• lz4 - Enable support for lz4 compression (as implemented in app-arch/lz4)
• maxminddb - Use dev-libs/libmaxminddb for IP address geolocation
• mergecap - Install mergecap, to merge two or more capture files into one
• minizip - Build with zip file compression support
• netlink - Use dev-libs/libnl
• pcap - Use net-libs/libpcap for network packet capturing (build dumpcap, rawshark)
• pcre - Add support for Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
• plugin-ifdemo - Install plugin interface demo
• plugins - Install plugins
• portaudio - Add support for the crossplatform portaudio audio API
• profile - Add support for software performance analysis (will likely vary from ebuild to ebuild)
• python - Add optional support/bindings for the Python language
• python_single_target_python2_5 - Build for Python 2.5 only
• python_single_target_python2_6 - Build for Python 2.6 only
• python_single_target_python2_7 - Build for Python 2.7 only
• python_targets_python2_5 - Build with Python 2.5
• python_targets_python2_6 - Build with Python 2.6 (removed)
• python_targets_python2_7 - Build with Python 2.7
• python_targets_python3_4 - Build with Python 3.4
• python_targets_python3_5 - Build with Python 3.5
• python_targets_python3_6 - Build with Python 3.6
• python_targets_python3_7 - Build with Python 3.7
• qt5 - Add support for the Qt 5 application and UI framework
• randpkt - Install randpkt, a utility for creating pcap trace files full of random packets
• randpktdump - Install randpktdump, an extcap interface to provide access to the random packet generator (randpkt)
• reordercap - Install reordercap, to reorder input file by timestamp into output file
• sbc - Use media-libs/sbc for playing back SBC encoded packets
• sdjournal - Install sdjournal, an extcap that captures systemd journal entries
• selinux - !!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur
• sharkd - Install sharkd, the daemon variant of wireshark
• smi - Use net-libs/libsmi to resolve numeric OIDs into human readable format
• snappy - Enable support for Snappy compression (as implemented in app-arch/snappy)
• spandsp - Use media-libs/spandsp for for G.722 and G.726 codec support in the RTP Player
• sshdump - Install sshdump, an extcap interface to capture from a remote host through SSH
• ssl - Add support for SSL/TLS connections (Secure Socket Layer / Transport Layer Security)
• test - Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
• text2pcap - Install text2pcap, to generate a capture file from an ASCII hexdump of packets
• tfshark - Install tfshark, a terminal-based version of the FileShark capability
• threads - Add threads support for various packages. Usually pthreads
• tshark - Install tshark, to dump and analyzer network traffic from the command line
• udpdump - Install udpdump, to get packets exported from a source (like a network device or a GSMTAP producer) that are dumped to a pcap file
• zlib - Add support for zlib (de)compression
• zstd - Enable support for ZSTD compression

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