Comparing two Wireshark capture files

Question

I want to use iperf to send some packets and receive the same at the client (which might have gone through different OSI layer processings). I want to check the packets sent are same as the received ones.

1. Can I use Wireshark to capture the streams?
2. Is there any way to compare them with the wireshark?

Or is there any other better way of doing this?

Answer 1

You can use Wireshark to perform the capture, select the packets of each stream and export to text files (one per stream):

File -> Export -> as "Plain Text" file:
    - Check "Selected packet only"
    - Check "Packet summary line"
    - Check "Packet details: All expanded"

Then perform the diff with regular text tools as gnu diff, WinMerge or gvimdiff.