Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Live piping of pcap formatted files to Wireshark

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From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 17:50:09 -0700
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:14:18AM +1000, Nirupama Ganeshkumar wrote:

>   Is there any program that I can use to send the pcap-formatted 
> packet directly to my Wireshark application? Or is this something I 
> need to write?

Is this running on Unix?  Can your application write to a pipe?  
Wireshark can read from a pipe by specifying the "filename" as an 
argument to the interface name parameter: wireshark -i pipe_name


Steve