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2020-01-05 13:12:25 +0000 marked best answer TShark CSV export problem

Hello,
I am using tshark to export a pcap to a csv.
The command looks like this (I have many more fields that I want to export, I removed them here to make it shorter):

tshark -r recording.pcap -T fields -e ip.proto -e ipv6.nxt -e frame.number -e frame.time_relative -e ... -E header=y -E separator=, -E quote=d > out.csv

This works for the most part and I get output lines in my CSV as I would expect them

"6",,"2552","53.591729000","Jan 25, 2011 19:53:16.076138000 CET","936","936","00:1a:8c:15:f9:80","40:61:86:9a:f1:f5","66.235.139.121","192.168.3.131",,,"80","56126","3233954145",,

But some lines in my CSV are "borken" like this

"1,1",,"5583","2.171949000","Feb 26, 2013 23:02:38.125121000 CET","70","70","00:90:7f:3e:02:d0","00:90:fb:34:44:24","68.85.69.49,172.16.133.109","172.16.133.109,64.30.236.34",,,,,,,

As you can see the protocol number (1) is there twice and the ip addresses are also "doubled"...
When I look at this packet in wireshark I can see that it is an ICMP packet and from 68.85.69.49 to 172.16.133.109.
It seems that tshark has somehow "merged" two packets into on row. Sometimes its even worse with 5 or more.

I used this export technique before and it always worked as expected.
Is there anything I could do about this?
I used the smallFlows.pcap and bigFlows.pcap from here

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2020-01-05 12:53:28 +0000 commented answer TShark CSV export problem

Oh I never noticed this before. Wireshark handles it like I would expect: Source and Destination are a single IP and al

2020-01-04 16:26:24 +0000 asked a question TShark CSV export problem

TShark CSV export problem Hello, I am using tshark to export a pcap to a csv. The command looks like this (I have many