Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Problems with capturing on multiple interfaces
From: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 01:17:36 +0200
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:25:38PM +0000, Chris Maynard wrote:
> And while I'm at it ... another feature that I think would be nice to have would
> be to be able to specify capturing on an interface that doesn't yet exist, such
> as ppp0.  For my USB/PPP capturing, currently to get a capture of all traffic
> over that interface, I either have to use usbmon or ppp's record option to
> generate a pppdump file.  (OK, this last one isn't really specific to capturing
> on multiple interfaces, but it's related to capturing so ...)

I think it'd be nice feature to start, pause or stop captuing on any interface at any time.

But it'd be easier to implement if instead of running N-threads single dumpcap we run N dumpcaps...

Regards.