Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Live Capture limit

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:36:46 -0700 (PDT)
Pierre JUHEN said:
> Is there any limit on a live capture ?
>
> I would like to have a permanent view on an network, leaving
> an ethereal running "permanently" in live capture mode ?

You will probably eventually run out of memory.  We can't predict when
that'd happen, as it not only depends on the amount of traffic but on the
*type* of traffic, as the data structures allocated as the packets are
dissected depend on the type of packets that are seen.