[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vinay Chilakamarri wrote:

> Thanks for the response. Since I will be using this file for processing 
> rest of the application, I want to make sure that the presence of this 
> file is mandatory,  for Wireshark to be able to function properly.  Can 
> I safely assume that dumpcap will be present in a standard installation?

With recent versions of Wireshark, any installation that can capture 
traffic has dumpcap, because Wireshark runs dumpcap to do the traffic 
capture.  That's been true for several releases.