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Re: Feeding data to Wireshark in real time


From: kahou lei <kahou82 () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:03:50 -0700

Actually, I can add the named pipe in wireshark. But when I run the
c++ example on http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Pipes. Wireshark
returns "Invalid libpcap format".

Does that mean the file header of the pcap file is incorrect? The pcap
file can be displayed on wireshark if I load it manually tho.

Thanks,
Kahou

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:52 PM, kahou lei <kahou82 () gmail com> wrote:
Hi Guy,

Thanks for you reply.

I don't understand what you mean by "giving the pathname of the named
pipe as the name of the network interface on which to capture". Can
you give me an example?

I have followed the c++ example on
http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Pipes. I couldn't get it works.
Am I missing something here?

Thanks,
Kahou


From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:48:16 -0700
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On Mar 16, 2010, at 10:11 PM, Jaap Keuter wrote:

That's called a pipe.

To give some more detail:

if the application writes a pcap file (complete with file header!) to
a named pipe, you can have Wireshark or TShark
capture from that named pipe, by giving the pathname of the named pipe
as the name of the network interface on which to
capture.

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