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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] DumpCap and Multiple Files

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From: "Shlomo Taub" <voldermort@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 22:30:55 +0100

>> What is the purpose of -a along with -b?
>
>Simplified: -a specifies when to stop the whole capture process while -b
>is the criteria when to switch to a new file.

Right. So what is the purpose of using both together, as in http://bugs.ethereal.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=895 ?
(BTW, I did read the docs before posting. Couldn't grok an answer therefrom.)


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