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| 1 | +# ymir |
| 2 | +ymir is a sniffing tool ("sniffer") which captures traffic sent between wow servers and clients and writes it to a file. |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +## Disclaimer |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | +Use at your own risk, TrinityCore is not responsible for any actions caused (by Activision Blizzard, jurists or anyone else) due to usage of this tool. |
| 7 | +The generated sniff files contain private data (e.g. your real name), so its highly advised to only share it with TrinityCore developers and official contributors. |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +Since initial development during patch 8.1.5/Retail no known bans were caused so far. Nevertheless this is no proof for total security. |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +## Operating system requirements |
| 12 | +The sniffer is developed for usage on Windows 10. |
| 13 | +It might be possible to use it on OS X via. wine (untested) |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +## Installation |
| 16 | +1. Download and install Npcap using Npcap installer from https://nmap.org/npcap/ (and install it in **WinPcap compatibility mode**) |
| 17 | +2. Download sniffer binary for your version, patch from [Releases](http://github.com/TrinityCore/ymir/releases) and save it anywhere (preferably not in wow directory) |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +## How to sniff |
| 20 | +1. Delete Cache directory within your relevant wow installation (for retail e.g. inside *\_retail\_* directory) |
| 21 | +2. Start *ymir_retail.exe* (name might be different depending on wow branch, e.g. *ymir_ptr.exe* for PTR) |
| 22 | +3. Start wow client (via Battle.net or explorer) |
| 23 | +4. Sniffs will be saved in the dump/ subdirectory next to the sniffer while playing |
| 24 | +5. When done playing just close wow regularly and wait for the sniffer to close automatically (usually happens 1-5s after client is closed) |
| 25 | +6. Compress sniff in 7z, rar or zip, upload them to any file hoster (e.g. mega, zippyshare) and share the links [in the TC Forum](https://community.trinitycore.org/forum/13-wdbadbsniffs/), we're working on an easier solution for this already. |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +## Tips |
| 28 | +You can combine step 1 & 2 with a batch file (adjust paths to your needs, especially partitions *E:* and *F:*): |
| 29 | +```batch |
| 30 | +E: |
| 31 | +cd E:\Games\World of Warcraft\_retail_\ |
| 32 | +rmdir /S /Q Cache |
| 33 | +
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| 34 | +F: |
| 35 | +cd F:\ymir\Retail |
| 36 | +start ymir_retail.exe |
| 37 | +``` |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +## Sniff processing |
| 40 | +The saved sniffs may be further processed using [WowPacketParser](http://github.com/TrinityCore/WowPacketParser) |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +## Authors |
| 43 | +- [shelby](http://github.com/Izidor) |
| 44 | +- [ModoX](http://github.com/mdX7) |
| 45 | +- [Shauren](http://github.com/Shauren) |
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