Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] New feature?

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From: andreas.sikkema@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:13:10 +0200
Hi

Just for fun my colleague set up a Pentium 75 running 
Windows 95 with a capture filter to monitor all ARP 
traffic on our network. This runs surprisingly smooth.
He can use this machine to test some application at 
the same time without Ethereal missing packets.

>From what I can remember Ethereal tries to allocate 
memory until there's nothing left. Our idea is to set 
a maximum to the size of the memory that can be allocated 
and when the maximum is reached to dump it all to disk 
and start with a new file. This way, you can have an 
(almost) indefinate running Ethereal, which might be 
handy for network admins or something.

-- 
Andreas Sikkema
andreas.sikkema@xxxxxxxxxxx
"Standing barefoot in a river of clues, most people would 
         not get their toes wet." - Brian Kantor in a.s.r.