Re: how to start Wireshark automatically at each boot-up?

[Hrishikesh Murali <hrishikeshmurali88 () gmail com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> ...if you're running on a UN*X with an /etc/rc.local.  That obviously won't
> help on Windows.

This is true, I was wrong in assuming that the user is using UN*X systems.


> As others have noted, it's not clear that Wireshark - or even the non-GUI
> TShark - would be the right tool for this purpose.  If somebody wants to
> record network *usage*, even running dumpcap or "tcpdump -w" might be
> overkill - capturing traffic won't just give them the amount of network
> traffic, it'll give you the full *contents* of the network traffic, so if
> they use, for example, 250GB/month of network traffic, capturing that
> traffic will consume at least 250GB/month of disk space....

You are right, I should have suggested the non-GUI option, especially if the
user is planning on caputring traffic over a reasonably long period of
time.

-- 
Thanks and Regards,
Hrishikesh Murali

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