Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Continuous/circular in-memory tracing?

[Jay Levitt <lists-wireshark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/22/2007 8:51 AM, Sake Blok wrote:
> Dumpcap does not interpret what it sees, it sole purpose in life is to
> grab packets of the wire(less) and to drop them to disk. And it is 
> quite happy to do so for you :-)

Ah, ok!  Good to know - I somehow had it in my head that all the 
interpretation/dissection/parsing was done at display time in Wireshark.

dumpcap sounds like just the thing - and if both you guys are using it 
this way for this long, I should probably quit whining about disk writes 
and just deal with it!  Premature optimization, all that.

Jay