Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] 2 gig limit on mergecap

From: "William Saw" <williamsaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:09:40 +0000
Hi Daniel,
If you are running on wondows FAT32 disk partition, that is the limitation. Try NTFS.
Regards,
SL Saw

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Community support list for Wireshark <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Community support list for Wireshark <wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] 2 gig limit on mergecap
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:51:11 +0800



Daniel Goolsby wrote:
> I sifted through some of the archives but couldn't find anything whether
> this was going to be fixed.  I started capturing all port 80 traffic..
> every hour i send that tcpdump to another machine, so at the end of the
> day i wanted to merge all the traffic together in one nasty port 80
> tcpdump file.
>
> regardless, mergecap stops at 2g.  I made sure and compiled merge on a
> Sparc Sun box, i also recompiled zlib to make sure it was at least
> compiled on a 64bit machine- no telling if it had any real effect.
>
> regardless, it still stops after the 2 gig limit has been reached on the
> new dump file i'm trying to create.  Are there any other tools that can
> merge tcpdump files that anyone knows of that doesn't have this limit?
>
> I could probably 'tcpreplay' the individual files on an interface that
> isn't being used, and tcpdump that one, but that's the only workaround
> i've thought up so far.
>
> Any suggestions/comments?

One other thought is: what will you do with a capture file > 2 Gb big?
Are you aware that Wireshark needs a lot of memory to open large capture
files:

http://wiki.wireshark.org/KnownBugs/OutOfMemory

?
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