Thanks Guy. dumpcap perfectly suited to what I exactly wanted. Also, do you have any suggestions for the older wireshark versions that didn't use dumpcap for capturing?
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Guy Harris <
guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.