Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] splitcap

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 08:45:28 +1000
Very nice.

Can it also split captures specifying
number ofr frames in the split?
size of split file?

I.e. split the file into 100.000 frame split captures
split capture into 10Mb split captures


----- Original Message -----
From: "Graeme Hewson"
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 8:38 AM
Subject: [Ethereal-dev] splitcap


> Attached is splitcap, a program for splitting capture files into
> separate files.
>
> It can interpret the following protocols:
>
> Layer 2: Ethernet, 802.3, FDDI, Token Ring, Linux cooked mode.
> Layer 3: IPv4, IPv6.
> Layer 4: TCP, UDP.
>
> I have no plans at present to add more protocols.
>
> There are a couple of issues:
>
> 1. I haven't been able to test the support (meaning "skipping over
> them") for the IPv6 extension headers specified in RFC 2460
> (Hop-by-Hop Options, Routing (Type 0), Fragment and Destination
> Options).  If anyone could test splitcap with these headers, and/or
> provide a sample capture file, that would be great.  Also, we need
> to check that splitcap gracefully handles fragmented IPv6 packets
> when splitting by TCP/UDP port number (see the BUGS section of the
> man page).
>
> 2. I nicked the definition of TIME_T_MAX from packet-smb.c.  This
> splendid preprocessor code should go into a .h file somewhere,
> but I haven't given any thought as to where.
>
> I haven't included updates for the following files/directories:
>
> Makefile.nmake
> doc/Makefile.nmake
> README.win32
> debian/
> image/
> packaging/nsis/
>
>
> Enjoy.
>
>
> Graeme Hewson
>


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