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Re: Adding pcap-ng pipe support to dumpcap
From: Stephen Donnelly <Stephen.Donnelly () endace com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 03:04:46 +0000
From: Guy Harris on Thursday, 31 August 2017 1:24 PM
On Aug 30, 2017, at 4:58 PM, Stephen Donnelly <Stephen.Donnelly () endace com> wrote:
At the very least extcap tools should be able to supply data in any format understood by wiretap, but since the extcap data currently goes via dumpcap (maybe not sensible either?)Perhaps not, indeed. Currently, there's a protocol between dumpcap and {Wireshark,TShark} allowing dumpcap to tell *shark "I've appended N more packets to the capture file", to allow dumpcap to report errors and "here's another capture file" (if it's doing multiple files), etc.. If extcap programs were to speak that protocol when capturing, you could have the extcap programs behave similarly to dumpcap, writing packets directly to a file, and have *shark run the extcap program rather than running dumpcap. I.e., make extcap programs act as substitutes for dumpcap.
Agreed. In fact if extcap programs can talk directly to *shark, then dumpcap becomes just another extcap program and not especially privileged. Stephen ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Re: Adding pcap-ng pipe support to dumpcap, (continued)
- Re: Adding pcap-ng pipe support to dumpcap Kvidera, Evan D (Aug 31)
- Re: Adding pcap-ng pipe support to dumpcap Stephen Donnelly (Aug 30)
- Re: Adding pcap-ng pipe support to dumpcap Ed Beroset (Aug 30)
- Re: Adding pcap-ng pipe support to dumpcap Guy Harris (Aug 30)
- Re: Adding pcap-ng pipe support to dumpcap Ed Beroset (Aug 31)
- Re: Adding pcap-ng pipe support to dumpcap Guy Harris (Aug 31)
- Re: Adding pcap-ng pipe support to dumpcap Jeff Morriss (Aug 31)
- Re: Adding pcap-ng pipe support to dumpcap Guy Harris (Aug 31)
- Re: Adding pcap-ng pipe support to dumpcap Ed Beroset (Aug 30)
- Re: Adding pcap-ng pipe support to dumpcap Anthony Coddington (Aug 31)
- Re: Adding pcap-ng pipe support to dumpcap Stephen Donnelly (Aug 30)