Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] "wiretap"' utility

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:15:10 -0800
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:43:23PM +0100, olivier.parisot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I would like to know what is the utility of the source files in
> "wiretap" directory.  Do they make the same work as LIBPCAP?

They do *some* of the same things that libpcap does.  They read and
write capture files, just as libpcap does.  However, they do not do live
packet capture, which is something else that libpcap does.

They also read and write more capture file formats than libpcap does.