Wireshark-users: [Wireshark-users] Two questions about wireshark usage
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From: Robert Smith <wmk589@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:02:01 -0800 (PST)
I have two questions about wireshark usage:

1. In the wireshark->capture->options dialog there are possibilities to define multiple capture files and condition when to switch to the next one. For example by size, every 5 MB start to save to new log file. My question is whether the same thing  is possible to configure using tshark from command line. As far as I know there is only option -w to specify output file. So how to specify multiple output file using tshark?

2. Ia m running wireshark under Linux Ubuntu 7.10 operating system. I don't understand why but the Wireshark -> Preferences -> Protocols tab is empty. I can't click on the plus sign next to word "Protocols" in the Wireshark -> Preferences and open list of available protocols.

I tried to open Wireshark -. Preferences -> Protocols on my WindowsXP computer and there I can see list of protocols (including IEEE 802.11) without any problems. So it seems to me the problem is Ubuntu specific.

Could you advice what might be went wrong?

Thanks

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