Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7367] Allow users to specify an alternative dumpcap progra

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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:54:45 +0000

changed bug 7367

What Removed Added
Status CONFIRMED RESOLVED
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Resolution --- DUPLICATE

Comment # 5 on bug 7367 from 
Mike Kershaw and Mike Ryan are also working on something similar.  They
presented their idea at Sharkfest this year (included are some compelling
reasons for such functionality):

http://sharkfest.wireshark.org/sharkfest.13/presentations/NAP-11_Expanding-Wireshark-Beyond-Ethernet-and-Network-Interfaces_Kershaw-Ryan.pdf

(In reply to comment #3)
> I think writing a custom wrapper taking the same parameters as dumpcap and
> replacing dumpcap with it by changing the PATH for example would be a better
> approach.

I thought about this too but I think it would be too complex: dumpcap does
quite a bit beyond just capturing: it handles stuff like rotating the capture
files, etc.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8585 ***

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