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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal to Disk

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From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 20:41:03 +0200
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:48:34AM -0700, Mike Humes wrote:
> 
>   I would like to be able to save the Ethereal captures to disk for long term storage and recall. Is this a simple configuration change or is additional software required, so that I may pull traces from a busy network for 2-7 days. Anything after a time or storage limit can be overwritten. I must receive all of the packets. 
>    

Please have a look at the following message I posted earlier on 
this list which answers your question:

http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200602/msg00176.html


Cheers,   Sake