Dumcap has another advantage :
it is much faster than Wireshark as it has no graphic interface to process.
> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 10:19:33 -0500
> From: Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx
> To: wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Where is the "Packet Range" dialog box created ?
>
> Why not use dumpcap for day-long capturing instead of Wireshark?
>
> You can configure dumpcap to run continuously or for just a single day
> then stop, and you can configure dumpcap to capture only a certain
> amount of data per file. When the limit is reached, it will close the
> file and open a new one. That makes the files a little more manageable
> to analyze later on. You can always use mergecap to combine them later
> if you want or you can use editcap to further split them if they're
> still too big. You can view any of the files in Wireshark at any time
> without having to stop dumpcap.
>
> See "dumpcap -h" or "man dumpcap" or
> http://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/dumpcap.html
>
>
> - Chris
>
>
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