Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Live piping of pcap formatted files to Wireshark

[Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think it is possible to do on Windows without writing your own 
code unfortunately.

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:28:09AM +1000, Nirupama Ganeshkumar wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Steve. Sorry I should have mentioned this... the 
> application is running on Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600 SP2.

> Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:14:18AM +1000, Nirupama Ganeshkumar wrote:
> 
> > Is there any program that I can use to send the pcap-formatted 
> > packet directly to my Wireshark application? Or is this something I 
> > need to write?
> 
> Is this running on Unix? Can your application write to a pipe? 
> Wireshark can read from a pipe by specifying the "filename" as an 
> argument to the interface name parameter: wireshark -i pipe_name
> 
> 
> Steve
> 
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