Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Re: Tethereal and use of the file ring option

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From: Adrian R Conrad <adrian_conrad@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:27:50 +0100



(- evidently also known as the "buffer ring" option)

I've reworded my queries for brevity. I hope this will join the
thread I started before...

1. Is there a way to specify a ring of capture extents for tethereal
   which does not require a maximum filesize limit to be specified ?
   I want to switch capture extents only at fixed time intervals.

   Please don't tell me to code the filesize limit as a high number -
   I've tried that. See (2).

2. Is there a bug with the -a filesize:nnnnnn limit when used with
   the ring file option ?

   The option worked when I specified 1000000, but I found that if
   nnnnnn was coded as 50000000 or higher, the extent switching
   occurred several times a second - in fact, it seemed to be
   switching after just one frame per extent, as if the filesize
   limit being used was ZERO.

Best regards, Adrian.

Adrian Conrad,
Consultant Network Specialist, IBM UK ITS Technical Support