Re: large capture files

[Abbhishek Misra <abhishekfishy2000 () gmail com>]

Thanks Chris, this is going well.

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Christopher Maynard <
christopher.maynard () gtech com> wrote:

> Abbhishek Misra <abhishekfishy2000@...> writes:
>
> > I'm using wireshark to capture wifi packet.
> > When capture is run for long duration,  say 70k+ plus packets, wireshark
> hangs.
> > Please let me know what method should be used for large captures.
>
> Try using dumpcap[1] instead, then post-analyze the capture file(s) with
> Wireshark afterwards.  Using dumpcap will avoid any potential
> out-of-memory[2]
> problems that can occur with long-running captures.
>
> - Chris
>
> [1]: http://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/dumpcap.html
> [2]: http://wiki.wireshark.org/KnownBugs/OutOfMemory
>
>
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