Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Bug in .99 using tethereal?

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

King, John (Greg) (LMIT-HOU) wrote:
> Or am I just calling this incorrectly?
>
> I am trying to configure tethereal to capture 5 files each about 2M in
> size and then stop.
>
> tethereal -i eth1 -a filesize:2000 -a files:5 -w "capture"
>
> I let this run for a few minutes and then look at the directory.
>
> It is full of thousands of files like so:
>
> -rw-------   1 root root     168 Apr 26 09:57 capture_20060426095758
> -rw-------   1 root root     142 Apr 26 09:57
> capture_03689_20060426095758
> -rw-------   1 root root     100 Apr 26 09:57
> capture_03690_20060426095758
> -rw-------   1 root root     142 Apr 26 09:57
> capture_03691_20060426095758
> -rw-------   1 root root     168 Apr 26 09:57
> capture_03692_20060426095758

Looks like you're not the only one seeing problems in this area:

http://bugs.ethereal.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=895