["Laura Chappell" <lchappell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes – that’s the idea. Even if you capture some really large trace files that take too long to load, you can use editcap to split the file into smaller pieces. Type editcap –h for more information, but the syntax is…

Editcap –c 100000 <capturefilein> <capturefileout>

Where <capturefilein> is the name of your really large capture file and <capturefileout> is the starting name of your output files. Editcap will number the output files for you.

Laura
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Thanks for the response, yup I know that wireshark or ethereal cant handle large amount of data, so does tcpdump and dumpcap capable of handling such

data, can we use it to capture large amount of data, save it to multiple files for Tshark or Tethereal for post process. Pls advise and thanks

 
 



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