Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Capture dialog ringbuffer behaviour

[Laurent Deniel <laurent.deniel@xxxxxxx>]

Ok, I saw too late that the GUI has been modified.

Ulf, please tell me how the uses described below (one ring buffer file and
unlimited # of files) can be obtained with the current interface.

And please don't forget to update the doc if you want to keep the GUI that way !

Laurent

Laurent Deniel wrote:
> (Late followup but back from holiday ...)
>
> That's right.
>
> I use the "one file" (i.e. only the packets of the last day or hour for 
> instance)
> and "0" (i.e. unlimited) features of the ring buffer in many situations and
> in real world cases (e.g. to be able to save one compressed file of 
> captured
> data per hours or days according to the LAN traffic or capture filters).
> This means that [t]ethereal is *never* stopped (well unless crashes or
> memory leaks ... ;-(
>
> The '0' in the GUI was only temporary since I wanted to have the core
> features in place very quickly and without spending then too much time
> in the GUI part ...
>
> Refer also to:
> http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200306/msg00184.html
>
> Up to everyone to change the GUI in whole or in part, but be careful,
> the current window (mix of stop conditions or different ring buffer
> modes) allow a lot of combinations that might not be possible (or worst
> labelled) in the different GUI proposed in the next mails of this thread ..
> (still reading them).
> Laurent