Thanks, it works great now! Maybe someone should make a note of this
in the man page (or maybe I just over looked it?). From what I read,
it made it sound like you just need to specify a number.
Dominick Meglio
On 7/8/05, Stephen T Albright <sta4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> You need to specify the number of files with a keyword:
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> tethereal -a filesize:10 -b files:2 -w out.pcap
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> I think that will solve it for you.
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> Stephen Albright
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> Subject[Ethereal-users] Ring Buffer File with Tethereal
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> Hello,
>
> I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to get a ring buffer file to work in
> tethereal. I set it up to create 2 files using the following command:
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> tethereal -a filesize:10 -b 2 -w out.pcap
>
> Unfortunately, it seems to create more than two files. After running
> it for a while I see:
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> out_00001_20050708133605.pcap
> out_00001_20050708133606.pcap
> out_00001_20050708133607.pcap
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> The longer I let it run, the more files I get. Is this a bug? Or am I
> doing something wrong?
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> My version of tethereal is 0.10.11.
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> Thanks for your help,
> Dominick Meglio
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