importing hex stream into wireshark

Question

I have a 64 byte hex stream of a frame- ``` 000A959D6816000A959A651508004500002E000000004006AF160A010101C0A8000A11D71EC6000000000000000050000000AD840000000102030405CC904CE3 ``` How can I import it into Wireshark and see the whole packet? The option of importing hex dump doesn't seems to work in my case, if I save this stream into a text file and load it.

Accepted Answer

Since this hex stream is in hex, and for hex to hexdump conversion, `od` doesn't seems to work. So the solution would be to convert this hex back to binary, and then use `od -Ax -tx1 -v [file]` on that binary file.

```
xxd -r -p [hexfile] [binaryfile]
od -Ax -tx1 -v [binaryfile]
```

Note: Use the combination `-r` `-p` to read plain hexadecimal dumps without line number information and without a particular column layout.

importing hex stream into wireshark

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