[Prasenjit Chakraborty <cprasenjit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a Linux box. But I don't think ethereal supports reading from a FIFO
or a PIPE, does it?
Any other way to make it display packets from a regular file dynamic?

Prasenjit

Guy Harris wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:35:31PM +0530, Prasenjit Chakraborty wrote:
> >     I just downloaded the ethereal source code.
> > I have a packet capture application to which I want the ethereal to 
> > connect so that dynamically I can see the type of the packets in the 
> > network.
> >     
>
> If your packet capture application can write packets in libpcap format
> to a UNIX named pipe file, then all you need to do with the Ethereal
> source code on a UNIX system is to compile it.  If you create a named
> pipe file:
>
> 	mknod p /tmp/ethereal-pipe
>
> and run your program and make it write to the "/tmp/ethereal-pipe" file,
> and then start an Ethereal capture and specify that the "Interface" is
> "/tmp/ethereal-pipe", Ethereal should read from that pipe, reading
> packets as your program writes them to that pipe.
>
> Unfortunately, this won't work on Windows, as far as I know, unless
> Windows named pipes have pathnames *and* can be opened with the standard
> Windows APIs for opening files (which are presumably the API's used by
> "fopen()" and the like, that being what Ethereal uses to open the pipe).
>