Extcap is a plugin interface, which allows for the usage
of external capture interfaces via pipes using a predefined
configuration language which results in a graphical gui.
This implementation seeks for a generic implementation,
which results in a seamless integration with the current
system, and does add all external interfaces as simple
interfaces.
Windows Note: Due to limitations with GTK and Windows,
a gspawn-winXX-helper.exe, respective gspawn-winXX-helper-console.exe
is needed, which is part of any GTK windows installation.
The default installation directory from the build is an extcap
subdirectory underneath the run directory. The folder used by
extcap may be viewed in the folders tab of the about dialog.
The default installation directory for extcap plugins with
a pre-build or installer version of wireshark is the extcap
subdirectory underneath the main wireshark directory.
For more information see:
http://youtu.be/Nn84T506SwU
bug #9009
Also take a look in doc/extcap_example.py for a Python-example
and in extcap.pod for the arguments grammer.
Todo:
- Integrate with Qt - currently no GUI is generated, but
the interfaces are still usable
Change-Id: I4f1239b2f1ebd8b2969f73af137915f5be1ce50f
Signed-off-by: Mike Ryan <mikeryan+wireshark@lacklustre.net>
Signed-off-by: Mike Kershaw <dragorn@kismetwireless.net>
Signed-off-by: Roland Knall <rknall@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/359
Petri-Dish: Michael Mann <mmann78@netscape.net>
Tested-by: Petri Dish Buildbot <buildbot-no-reply@wireshark.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Mann <mmann78@netscape.net>
It just means "pcap didn't give me any interfaces, and didn't report an
error". Hopefully, in the future, there will be pcap APIs that
distinguish between the (admittedly unlikely, these days) case of "there
really *are* no interfaces on which *anybody* can capture" and "you
don't have sufficient permission to capture", and we can report the
latter as an error. (Given that pcap supports more than just "regular
interfaces", though, there are cases where you don't have permission to
capture on those but you have permission to capture raw USB traffic, for
example, so perhaps what's really needed is per-interface indications of
permissions.)
Change-Id: I7b8abb0829e8502f5259c95e8af31655f79d36a1
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/3169
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Most callers of capture_interface_list() don't expect an error string
for NO_INTERFACES_FOUND, because that's not really an error, it's just a
statement of face (and perhaps an error of 0 should be returned), so
they don't bother freeing the error string, causing a leak.
Instead, have the one place that *did* expect it to return an error
string just put "No interfaces found" itself.
Also, have that place not check for an error string if interfaces *were*
found, as no error code or string is returned in that case.
Change-Id: I9cb8ed7ad22810b23e2251d2833d9b7ab02eec03
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/3165
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Some of those routines are used only in dumpcap; others are used in
TShark and Wireshark as well.
Change-Id: I9d92483f2fcff57a7d8b6bf6bdf2870505d19fb7
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/2841
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
This pulls some stuff out of the top-level directory, and means we don't
have to build them once for every program using them.
Change-Id: I37b31fed20f2d5c3563ecd2bae9fd86af70afff5
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/2591
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Roland Knall