Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Get Captured Data

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 13:02:25 +0100

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:19:20AM +0100, Baumann Rene wrote:
> I am working on a tool, that is supposed to get the captured and dissected packages.
> First I need to know, if there is any API, which makes it possible to get the captured data from Wireshark.
> I'm thinking of a plug-in for Wireshark. 
> This Plug-In should be running and send the captured data over the network to another computer.
> I know it is possible to programm Plug-Ins, but at the moment I know not much about it.

You can run dumpcap via ssh. Dumpcap is a separate (command line)
application that is run by Wireshark to do the actual capture.

 ciao
    Joerg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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