Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] pipe capture checked in

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:10:56 -0700
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 05:59:46PM +0200, Olivier Abad wrote:
> > If you assume that the program writing to the pipe was compiled with
> > whatever libpcap is installed on the system, then if you use libpcap
> > rather than Wiretap to read the capture file, that should make it work.
> 
> You can't assume this for remote captures.

"Remote" as in "a program is running on a remote machine, and sending
stuff over the wire directly to a pipe on your machine, or to a program
on your machine that's writing to that pipe"?