Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] What is good about netxray

["Paul L. Lussier" <plussier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a message dated: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:33:15 PDT
Guy Harris said:

>What does it do there that Ethereal doesn't already do?  (If you click
>on something in the detail (protocol tree) pane, Ethereal *should* be
>highlighting, in boldface, the relevant octets of the packet in the data
>pane.)

Really?  Hmmm, never noticed, though I haven't looked too hard either.  I'll 
have to play with it today and take notice :)

>>    4. flexible capture buffer size
>
>"Capture buffer size" in what sense?  Some programs have a fixed-size
>capture buffer, and will either stop capturing or will wrap around when
>that buffer fills up; Ethereal saves to a file, so it doesn't have a
>point at which it stops.

Unless the filesystem you're saving the file to fills up, or you hit the 2GB 
file size limitation (on most OSes (does Linx still have this one?))
-- 

Seeya,
Paul
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