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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5516] Server 2008: tshark -i - doesn't work like it does o

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:21:58 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5516

--- Comment #3 from Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2010-12-23 09:21:57 MST ---
(In reply to comment #2)

> Thanks for the help. I guess I'm confused about why the -r command will work
> without winpcap installed, but the -i won't work without winpcap:

No problem.  Although many applications use libpcap (Unix) and presumably
WinPcap (Windows) for reading capture files, we don't.  Wireshark can read and
write all of the supported capture files on its own (we call that portion of
Wireshark "wiretap").  We only use WinPcap / libpcap for capturing live traffic
off the network.

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