Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] pipe capture checked in

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From: Olivier Abad <abad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:59:46 +0200
On lun, jui 31, 2000 at 12:00:26 -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 07:22:19PM +0200, Olivier Abad wrote:
> > P.S. : this will not work with captures done with broken libpcap
> > libraries from RedHat 6.1 and SuSE 6.3, because we can't seek on pipes
> > to check the first record header (as in libpcap_open()).
> 
> If you assume that the program writing to the pipe was compiled with
> whatever libpcap is installed on the system, then if you use libpcap
> rather than Wiretap to read the capture file, that should make it work.

You can't assume this for remote captures.

Olivier
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