Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] [mergecap] file size limit exceeded (of 2Gbyte)

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 00:49:17 -0700
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:43:58AM -0500, A Kerr wrote:
> Using mergecap I tried to append qty 40 of 100 MByte each libpcap
> (tcpdump) files, to create a single file for automated tethereal
> processing, a total of about 4 GBytes.

File offsets in the library Ethereal uses for reading and writing
capture files are currently 32 bits on most platforms, so we don't
handle files bigger than 2GB.