Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] wireshark-1.0.0

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Moheed Moheed Ahmad wrote:

> Is it must for 1.0.0 to have dumpcap built in order to tshark work?

Yes, if you want to capture network traffic; both Wireshark and TShark 
run dumpcap to do the capturing (so the process doing the capturing, 
which might have to run with special privileges, doesn't do any 
dissection, so a bug in a dissector won't cause problems in a privileged 
process).