Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Using wiretap library in a project

[Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>]

Libpcap has limited support for pcap-ng files since version 1.1.0, and
solid support since 1.2.1. Is upgrading to a recent libpcap version a
possibility?

If not then you should still be able to link against the wiretap
library and read in each packet that way.

Cheers,
Evan

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Neagaru Daniel <neagarudan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am working on a C project, which uses the libpcap library to open the
> capture files. Due to wireshark's migration to pcap-ng, most of the capture
> files users give me, are pcap-ng format, so I can't use my code anymore,
> without converting every pcap-ng to libpcap. Other capture formats except
> pcap-ng and libpcap most probably won't be used, so I wanted to ask, is
> there any way to convert the format from the code, without the system() call
> to editcap? Or just open it as a simple libpcap file for further processing?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
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