Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Named Pipes?

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From: Mike Benham <moxie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 10:16:37 -0800 (PST)
I get the same error dialog with -r.  Also the manpage does seem to
indicate that I can specify a named pipe with -i:

-i  Set the name of the network interface or pipe to use for live
    packet capture.  Network interface names should match one of the
    names listed in "netstat -i" or "ifconfig -a".  Pipe names should
    be either the name of a FIFO (named pipe) or ``-'' to read data
    from the standard input. Data read from pipes must be in libpcap
    format.

Any other ideas?

- Mike

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On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Joerg Mayer wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 06:57:53PM -0800, Mike Benham wrote:
> > Hey guys, the ethereal manpage seems to indicate that ethereal supports
> > named pipes.  However, when I try to use ethereal with a named pipe:
> >
> > ethereal -i <pipe> -kl
>
> <GUESS>
> -i specifies a capture interface. You don't want Ethereal to capture when
> using a named pipe. You want the named pipe to provide you with the captured
> stream in some capture file format. So the named pipe is sort of an input
> file, which should be specified with -r
> </GUESS>
>
>  Ciao
>     J?rg
>
> --
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> works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
>
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