Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal Command Line Options

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From: "Keith French" <keithfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:55:20 -0000
When I start Ethereal V0.10.14 from the command line under WinXP SP2, what is the exact syntax & units for capturing to multiple files?
 
Is it:-
 
ethereal -i 4 -k -a filesize:64 -b -w c:\traces\test.cap
 
I assume this starts a new file every 64M and does not use a ring buffer?
 
Also when setting the kernel buffer with -B 20, does that set the buffer to 20M.
 
One final point - is there any calculations that can be performed on available free memory on the PC and the ideal file size when capturing to multiple files to avoid dropped packets?
 
Keith French.
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