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Re: RFC: a loadable plugin framework for external capture backends


From: Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:00:55 -0400


Robin Jarry via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org> wrote:
    > The only caveat I can think of is that the builtin backends may need
    > specific privileges that we may not want to expose to dynamically
    > loadable third-party plugins?

This is the problem that wireshark solves with dumpcap, right?


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