Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Tethereal and support for pipes (windows)

["Gianluca Varenni" <gianluca.varenni@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all.

I was trying to feed tethereal (0.10.12) through stdin on windows, and I've 
seen that basically it doesn't work in all conditions:


tethereal -r - < somefile.cap    works perfectly
cat somefile | tethereal -r -   fails (it simply returns without decoding 
any packet)

The same commands work perfectly with tcpdump/windump (using the parameter 
"-r -")

I have the same problem if I try to use named pipes (windows). I have an app 
that creates a named pipe (\\.\pipe\foo) and writes some packets in libpcap 
format onto it.

tethereal -r \\.\pipe\foo fails telling me "The file \\.\pipe\foo doesn't 
exist".

Windump works perfectly with these pipes, as well ("windump -r 
\\.\pipe\foo").


Do you have any idea what the problem could be?

Have a nice day
GV