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

[Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>]

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