Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Capture Buffer

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From: "Keith French" <keithfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:32:08 -0000
When ethereal is capturing packets are they held in a capture buffer or written to a temporary file? What is the purpose of the ring buffer & "rotate capture file"? Does this save a trace direct to multiple files each of a filename of a size specified by the ring buffer setting?
 
 
Keith French.