Hi List!
While having a look at the Ethereal command line parameters, I'd
realized that some thing's that can be done using the capturing GUI
aren't possible with the command line, see
http://www.ethereal.com/docs/user-guide/ChCustCommandLine.html for
explanations in the User's Guide.
That's a problem as I'm going to use these parameters in the upcoming
seperated capture child program for privilege seperation (and I would
like to share the code of command line parameter parsing).
... and of course it limits the possibilities of Ethereal's command line :-(
The things I've recognized missing (have a look at the capture options
dialog for a better understanding):
1.) the (Win32 specific) "Buffer size: x megabyte(s)" parameter can't
be set (maybe adding a new -W option?)
2.) the number of files after stop capturing "Stop capture after x
file(s)" can't be set (adding a "files" suboption to -a ?), BTW: this is
not identical to the number of ringbuffer files!
3.) in order to set the duration of a ringbuffer file "Next file every x
minute(s)", you must set the ringbuffer option, but today these two are
independant (maybe add "file_duration" to -a and remove duration from
ringbuffer option?)
I would think that 1.) and 2.) are easy, but 3.) would end up in having
two ways to set the same duration value (ugly), or remove the -b
duration option from the command line (which would be incompatible with
previous versions, however I would prefer that one).
What do other's think?
Regards, ULFL
