Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] "wiretap"' utility

[Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:43, olivier.parisot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I'm student and actually I make a study about Ethereal.
> 
> I would like to know what is the utility of the source files in "wiretap" directory. Do they make the same work as LIBPCAP?
> 
> Sorry for my language, I'm french :-D
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Olivier

The wiretap README indicates that it was meant as a replacement for
libpcap, but it has no capture capability. It provides Ethereal the
capability for reading multiple file formats (libpcap, sniffer, netmon,
etc.).

--gilbert