Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] any way to exceed the file size limit?

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From: LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:13:36 +0100
On 3/15/06, George P Nychis <gnychis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok I guess i'm a little confused because I have .ISO files and such on my hard drive that are like 5GB, so why is my OS allowing those large files and not large pcap files?

these probably use APIs that hanlde longer offsets.

There was a discussion about this not long ago in the dev ml I cannot
find right now.

BTW. consider that ethereal uses N times more memory than the file it
is loading so the hard limit would be the RAM on the computer I
believe.


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