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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 4482] DUMPCAP ignores ringbuffer options

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:09:23 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4482

Jim Young <jyoung@xxxxxxx> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |jyoung@xxxxxxx
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #1 from Jim Young <jyoung@xxxxxxx> 2010-02-12 05:09:22 PST ---
Not a bug.   You need to specify the -b option twice; once to specify the
"filesize" and a second time to specify the "files".

See example below:

C:\Program Files\Wireshark>dumpcap -i 2 -w mytest.pcap -b filesize:2 -b files:3
File: mytest_00001_20100212080449.pcap
Packets: 13 File: mytest_00002_20100212080450.pcap
Packets: 26 File: mytest_00003_20100212080452.pcap
Packets: 39 File: mytest_00004_20100212080453.pcap
Packets: 52 File: mytest_00005_20100212080455.pcap
Packets: 66 File: mytest_00006_20100212080456.pcap
Packets: 80 File: mytest_00007_20100212080458.pcap
Packets: 93 File: mytest_00008_20100212080459.pcap
Packets: 108 File: mytest_00009_20100212080500.pcap
Packets: 124 File: mytest_00010_20100212080502.pcap
(Entered Ctrl-C)
Packets: 136 Packets dropped: 0

C:\Program Files\Wireshark>dir *pcap /od
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is CCC3-160D

 Directory of C:\Program Files\Wireshark

2010-02-12  08:05             2,200 mytest_00008_20100212080459.pcap
2010-02-12  08:05             2,270 mytest_00009_20100212080500.pcap
2010-02-12  08:05             1,750 mytest_00010_20100212080502.pcap
               3 File(s)          6,220 bytes
               0 Dir(s)     722,068,480 bytes free

C:\Program Files\Wireshark>

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