Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Dropped packets while Capturing to a File -Howcan I tell??
Thx very much for the info, and the QUICK response.
Michael Feeny
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[mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ulf Lamping
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:34 PM
To: Ethereal user support
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Dropped packets while Capturing to a File
-Howcan I tell??
Feeny, Michael (TD&DS, Applications Infrastructure Svcs.) wrote:
>OK, so...
>
>The only way for me to know if packets were dropped during a capture,
is
>to look at the status line at the bottom of the screen after a capture
>finishes, right?
>
>
You can get that info from Statistics/Summary too, but again this info
will be gone when you close the file.
>And, am I correct in inferring that, if Ethereal *wanted* to include
>information on 'drops' in the capture file, this would conflict with
the
>libpcap file format, and would make Ethereal capture files unreadable
by
>other tools? Is that the issue?
>
>
Exactly.
There's a new libpcap file format in development which will include such
information.
But it will take some time until it's available for use in Ethereal (no
predictions when this will be the case), so no solution for now ...
Regards, ULFL
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