Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] capturing interface implementation

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From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 01:24:11 -0600
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:45:57AM +0530, atdev.queries@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I would like to know how capturing happening in Wireshark i.e., which 
> file contains the respective implementation to capture on various 
> interfaces.

Wireshark does not capture on interfaces by itself.  Wireshark uses 
libpcap on Unix based operating systems (including MacOS X) and WinPcap 
on Windows (which is based on libpcap).


Steve