/mode-s-dissector

A wireshark dissector for Mode-S aircraft transmissions

Primary LanguageLuaGNU General Public License v2.0GPL-2.0

mode-s-dissector

A wireshark dissector for Mode-S aircraft transmissions.

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Patch

Apply the patch file to dump1090 so it will send raw bytes instead of hex strings on port 30002.

Listen

Consume the raw byte stream with a TCP client e.g. netcat: nc localhost 30002

Install dissector

Copy the lua file to ~/.wireshark/plugins/.

Run

Start wireshark and listen on the loopback interface

Warning

This script is very alpha and constains a lot of bugs and even more unfinished things. It should not harm your computer but may displays wrong information.