Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Question on capturing intermittent errors

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:27:10 -0800 (PST)
> Is there a way to set up Ethereal so that it can run continuously while 
> the computer is running without allowing the file/buffer to grow 
> infinitely in size?

In the current CVS version (which is not yet available as a release),
you can use a ring buffer and a capture file size limit for something
similar to that.

However, you don't get captures to a single file in that case; there's
no mechanism for wrapping around within a single file.