Re: Rev 38350 Capture Options Changes - Named Pipe?

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Aug 10, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Michael Tüxen wrote:

> Use the command line options... There is currently no way to specify a named
> pipe in the GUI. I think there was no way to do this in Wireshark 1.6, or
> am I missing something?

The general convention in Wireshark-the-project (i.e., Wireshark, TShark, and dumpcap) is that if the "network 
interface" you specify isn't a network interface (i.e., an attempt to open it with libpcap fails), and it's a named 
pipe, it's opened as a pipe connected to a program writing a pcap (or pcap-ng?) capture file.

I.e., in the GUI, you'd specify it by, for example, giving "/tmp/pipe" (or whatever the named pipe path is) as the name 
of the "network interface" from which to capture in the Capture Options dialog.
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