Wireshark · Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11715] New: Not possible to use external capture plugins without winpcap

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Bug ID	11715
Summary	Not possible to use external capture plugins without winpcap
Product	Wireshark
Version	1.99.x (Experimental)
Hardware	x86-64
OS	Windows 7
Status	UNCONFIRMED
Severity	Major
Priority	Low
Component	GTK+ UI
Assignee	bugzilla-admin@wireshark.org
Reporter	guenter.ebermann@googlemail.com

Build Information:
Version 1.99.9 (v1.99.9-0-g52a4a78 from master)

Copyright 1998-2015 Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> and contributors.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Compiled (64-bit) with GTK+ 2.24.23, with Cairo 1.12.16, with Pango 1.36.8,
with
WinPcap (unknown), with libz 1.2.8, with GLib 2.42.0, with SMI 0.4.8, with
c-ares 1.9.1, with Lua 5.2, with GnuTLS 3.2.15, with Gcrypt 1.6.2, with MIT
Kerberos, with GeoIP, with PortAudio V19-devel (built Sep  2 2015), with
AirPcap.

Running on 64-bit Windows 7 Service Pack 1, build 7601, with locale
German_Germany.1252, with WinPcap version 4.1.3 (packet.dll version
4.1.0.2980),
based on libpcap version 1.0 branch 1_0_rel0b (20091008), with GnuTLS 3.2.15,
with Gcrypt 1.6.2, without AirPcap.
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4700MQ CPU @ 2.40GHz (with SSE4.2), with 16009MB of
physical memory.


Built using Microsoft Visual C++ 12.0 build 31101

Wireshark is Open Source Software released under the GNU General Public
License.

Check the man page and http://www.wireshark.org for more information.
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In company-environments we are not allowed to install winpcap because of
security reasons.

However, we would like to use wireshark with our own external capture plugins
(via the new extcap interface) without installing winpcap.

At the moment this it is not possible (see attached screenshot).

I tested this with different version of Wireshark, the same behaviour was all
the same:
Wireshark 1.99.9 Gtk-Frontend
Wireshark 1.99.9 Qt-Frontend
Wireshark 1.12.5 Gtk-Fronend

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