On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:44:47PM -0500, vijay wrote:
> I am looking for some information on how Wireshark uses libpcap to
> capture the packets and dissects it i.e, the complete process from
> packet capture from the network to displaying to the user. I searched
> for such a resource for some time now but couldnt find one. If some
> one knows of such a material could you pls provide me the link.
Here is an overview from the developer's manual:
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChWorksOverview.html
For more details, review the developer's guide, doc/README.developer in
the source code and most importantly, the source code itself.