Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-users] Questions on using ethere al / tethereal

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From: Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:45:03 +0200
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris
> 
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:43:35AM +0200, Biot Olivier wrote:
> > And then one could let the end-user choose other means of 
> moving from one
> > file to another. My suggestion is to have the "ring buffer" 
> feature and a
> > new feature called "capture file rotation".
> 
> So the latter feature would have no maximum number of files - 
> it'd just
> keep creating new capture files as long as the capture runs?  
> (I.e., it
> implements choice 2 from my list?)

Exactly! Perhaps the name "rotation" is not adequate, and we might want to
use the word "archiving" instead.