Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] ethereal interfaces to applications

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sake Blok wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 06:24:04AM -0700, GeorgeN wrote:
> > Is it possible ethereal to send the filter traffic to
> > an external application?
>
> You can use "tethereal | grep" or something like that if you want
> the ascii output parsed by an external application. If you want
> the binary data to be passed to an external application, then you 
> can use "ethereal -w- | <some libpcap-capable application>"

Presumably you meant "tethereal -w -", not "ethereal -w -"; that's 
supported by Tethereal, but not Ethereal.

If GeorgeN meant Ethereal, there's currently no option to send packets 
to an external application.