Re: [Ethereal-users] Ring Buffer File with Tethereal

[Stephen T Albright <sta4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That does appear to be missing from
the man page distributed with 0.10.11.  However, it is listed on the
www.ethereal.com man page.

Stephen Albright
Enterprise Information Solutions
MeadWestvaco
10 West Second Street
Dayton, OH 45463
Office:  937.495.1260
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Dominick Meglio <dmeglio@xxxxxxxxx>
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07/08/2005 03:10 PM

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Subject	Re: [Ethereal-users] Ring Buffer File with Tethereal

Thanks, it works great now! Maybe someone should make
a note of this
in the man page (or maybe I just over looked it?). From what I read,
it made it sound like you just need to specify a number.

Dominick Meglio

On 7/8/05, Stephen T Albright <sta4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> You need to specify the number of files with a keyword: 
> 
> tethereal -a filesize:10 -b files:2 -w out.pcap 
> 
> I think that will solve it for you. 
> 
> Stephen Albright
> Enterprise Information Solutions
> MeadWestvaco
> 10 West Second Street
> Dayton, OH 45463
> Office:  937.495.1260
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to get a ring buffer file to work
in
> tethereal. I set it up to create 2 files using the following command:
> 
> tethereal -a filesize:10 -b 2 -w out.pcap
> 
> Unfortunately, it seems to create more than two files. After running
> it for a while I see:
> 
> out_00001_20050708133605.pcap
> out_00001_20050708133606.pcap
> out_00001_20050708133607.pcap
> 
> The longer I let it run, the more files I get. Is this a bug? Or am
I
> doing something wrong?
> 
> My version of tethereal is 0.10.11.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Dominick Meglio
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