Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Named Pipes?

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 06:43:19 +0100
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 06:57:53PM -0800, Mike Benham wrote:
> Hey guys, the ethereal manpage seems to indicate that ethereal supports
> named pipes.  However, when I try to use ethereal with a named pipe:
> 
> ethereal -i <pipe> -kl

<GUESS>
-i specifies a capture interface. You don't want Ethereal to capture when
using a named pipe. You want the named pipe to provide you with the captured
stream in some capture file format. So the named pipe is sort of an input
file, which should be specified with -r
</GUESS>

 Ciao
    Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                            <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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