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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] GUI functionality from plugins

From: Tony Trinh <tony19@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:48:22 -0500
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:22 PM, David Ameiss <netshark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For us, the critical item is cfile, to allow re-tapping captures.

That sounds like the job of retap_packets [1]. Does that not work for you?

[1] http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/trunk/epan/funnel.h?revision=45009&view=markup#l77