Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] how to start Wireshark automatically at each boot-up?

[Karthik Balaguru <karthikbalaguru79@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/14/10, Forthofer Russ <Russ.Forthofer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Karthik Balaguru
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 8:30 AM
> To: Community support list for Wireshark
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] how to start Wireshark automatically at each boot-up?
>
> On 1/14/10, Hrishikesh Murali <hrishikeshmurali88@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Dai Nish <dai_nish@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Please advise me how you could start Wireshark automatically and use
> > > it to
> > monitor network traffic at each boot-up.
> >
> > Just add the line "wireshark&" to /etc/rc.local
>
> Will wireshark be able to select the interface by just adding the above line ? I think, it will only start the wireshark.
>
> use the "-i <interface>" option.     "wireshark -h" will show you the commandline options available.
>

Interesting !
So invoking the wireshark by adding the line "wireshark&" to /etc/rc.local along
with the '-i' option solves the interface selection problem.
I checked the below link
-http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChCustCommandLine.html
I find very good support in command line for conveying the 'capture
stop conditions' and various methods of handling large number of
output logs to 'capture output'.

Thx for that info.
Karthik Balaguru