Re: Adding a new data source

[Akos Vandra <axos88 () gmail com>]

So in order to support a new data source only libpcap should be
modified? I have no experience with it, so I'm not sure how wireshark
and libpcap are interfaced... Does libpcap offer a list of available
capture source for wireshark, so it can use a new capture source
without any modification to wireshark?

In this case the libpcap developers would be more able to help me get started...

Regards,
  Ákos Vandra

On 3 December 2011 18:15, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2011, at 2:00 AM, Akos Vandra wrote:
>
> > I have a custom interface generating packet data. I'd like to use
> > wireshark to display them and dissect the packets.
> >
> > The dissection I can do with dissector plugins, but how can I feed the
> > packet data to wireshark?
>
> Make a patch to libpcap/WinPcap to support your custom interface?  That way, not only will Wireshark support it 
> without any changes, but other programs that use libpcap/WinPcap could support it as well.
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