Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Is it must to have dumpcap built in wireshark-1.0.0 in order to do capturing.

["Moheed Moheed Ahmad" <moheedm@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Devs,

 

I built tshark with --disable-dumpcap configure option and it builts.

But on running tshark it Errors out: It can't fork child process dumpcap.

 

But I don't understant why?

 

Is it must to have dumpcap built along with tshark to get packet captured?

 

and if it can't run without dumpcap then why the configure option of disable-dumpcap?

 

When I built the same with dumpcap it works fine.

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Regds, 
Moheed Moheed Ahmad