First, let me thanks for a great product!
I've used several analyzers in the past (sniffer dos, observer, protocol
expert and others) and Ethereal stands up to the best of them.
I have been using the current version for
several months and just noticed this particular "feature".
When I select capture and enter the STOP AFTER
TIME of 2 minutes the program does exactly that. But.....upon opening
the window again to start another capture the window now has 120 instead of 2;
and sure enough if you wait it will stop after 2 hours. What is happening
is the number of minutes is being converted to seconds (2 min = 120 seconds)
and this number is the default when the window re-opens.
Issue number two is when you set the capture
buffer to 1meg or 2meg or whatever.....it doesn't matter. The
capture buffer continues to fill. I happened to leave it running
overnight and it had filled my entire free disk space with the buffer. PC
not feel good!
Just thought you'd like to know.
Thanks again for a great product!
James Brown