Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Running (T)Ethereal forever

["Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Sharpe said:
> What's wrong with using tcpdump?

...with the "-S" option, otherwise tcpdump *also* maintains state
(per-connection state, so it can show relative sequence numbers).

(I assume it's not being run when writing to a capture file; if tcpdump is
being run with "-w" and a given capture filter, it won't maintain
per-connection state, as it doesn't dissect packets - but the same is true
of tethereal, so tcpdump vs. tethereal makes no difference in that case).