Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Reliable termination of a tethereal capture from a script
Anybody can help me?
I am writing some perl scripts (ActivePerl 5.6 on a Win2K system) that perform tests on network devices. The basic structure of these scripts is : start (asynchronously) a tethereal capture, perform some operation on devices, stop the trace, analyze the trace.
I'm using the Win32::Process package but the kill method look unreliable (for small traffic the capture file is empty, it looks like tethereal or the underlying libpcap perform a sort of buffering and I don't know how to force a disk write).
Tethereal autostop conditions don't look suitable: in general I cannot predict the running time of the script or the number of packet to capture.
A stop condition triggered by a capture filter would be very helpful, but as far as I know is not implemented.
Have you got some ideas ?
Thenk You
Piergiorgio Brandolin
R&D
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