Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Monitor mode [Was: TCP Conversations Question]

From: "Jake Peavy" <djstunks@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 08:31:04 -0600
On 4/4/08, Hansang Bae <hbae@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tom.Saurer wrote:
> Is there a way to have Wireshark only gather IP conversation stats
> (source IP/Port and destination IP/Port) as it watches a nic? We don't
> need the full packet information. We need to gather this data for
> several weeks and it would be to hard to analyze a packet capture to
> pull that information.

There is no "Monitor" function built into Wireshark.  It was actually
discussed during Sharkfest (about adding support for this support).
 
You can't collect to /dev/null?  I don't think I've ever tried.
 
-jp