Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Can't open 7GB capture file -- have I Iost precious satelli
Hi Jordan,
I would suggest you use some of Ethereals tools to make this process
much easier.
If I were you, I'd first do something like:
tethereal -r etherXXXW19P6S -R "udp" -w udp-only.log
That way you have a new log that only has the UDP traffic as though
thats how you originally did it ;)
Then your log file will be much smaller... if its still too big you can
try using tethereal to do what you need... you can also split the file
into multiple files.
Good luck,
George
Jordan Russell (Editor) wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I'm the editor of www.ulivewhere.com and yesterday I interviewed a professor of
American literature in Oran, Algeria. Unfortunately, I forgot to use a UDP
capture filter and so ethereal captured my VOIP call AND all the other traffic
passing over my network -- including a Norton Ghost backup process!
The result is that my precious satellite phone conversation (that cost me $80!)
is buried within a 7GB ethereal capture file called " etherXXXXW19P6S " -- a file
that I cannot open!
When I try to open the file I always specify "UDP" in the "open capture filter",
but even so, the process seems to run interminably (I ran it for 20 hours over
last night), and I still cannot get the file to open or access the precious UDP
packets lost inside.
I will add some technical information below, but if anyone knows any tricks I
might try (splitting the file into more manageable chunks? using a different
tool?), I would be extremely grateful to hear from you.
The "U Live Where?" project is all about contributing interesting content to the
internet community, and I'm crossing my fingers that the internet community will
bail me out of this terrible problem.
Thank you for reading this -- technical information follows.
Best,
Jordan Russell
System Info:
1.2GB RAM
1600Mhz Pentium M)
56GB storage (14GB free)
I aborted the last attempt to open this file at:
20 hours
440MB Ethereal memory usage (adding 4k to memory usage every 2 seconds)
Commit charge of 662MB / 1900 MB
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