Packet Sniffing Requirements

To use Pyspinel, you'll need to meet the following hardware and software requirements.

Hardware

A host machine to serve as an NCP and to run Pyspinel and Wireshark:
- macOS — 64 bit OS X 10.6 or later
- Linux
- Windows — 10 or later
1 OpenThread device flashed with an ot-ncp-ftd or ot-rcp build.
- For an ot-ncp-ftd build, the LINK_RAW=1 build switch must be used.

Software:

Python 3 for running Pyspinel
Wireshark
- 2.4.1 or newer for Thread protocol support
- 3.0.6 or newer for extcap support. For more information on using the Wireshark extcap plugin with Pyspinel, refer to Install Pyspinel.

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Last updated 2023-09-07 UTC.