Re: [Ethereal-dev] Running (T)Ethereal forever

[<jaime.fournier@xxxxxxxx>]

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Well we use it to decode packets on the fly 24/7.
But the restarts every so often are enough to prevent OOM killer from
kicking in.

On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:37:26 -0700 Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Richard Sharpe said:
>> What's wrong with using tcpdump?
>
>...with the "-S" option, otherwise tcpdump *also* maintains state
>(per-connection state, so it can show relative sequence numbers).
>
>(I assume it's not being run when writing to a capture file; if
>tcpdump is
>being run with "-w" and a given capture filter, it won't maintain
>per-connection state, as it doesn't dissect packets - but the same
>is true
>of tethereal, so tcpdump vs. tethereal makes no difference in that
>case).
>
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