[Olivier Abad <abad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On lun, jui 31, 2000 at 09:10:56 -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> 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"?

Directly to the pipe, e.g. :
ssh user@host tcpdump -w - | ethereal -i - -kS

Olivier
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