Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] File size limits on Linux and building for large file support

[Shehjar Tikoo <shehjart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For the sake of future reference, I just ran a single capture test, 
FWIW, with tcpdump. It was able to write a file size larger than 2Gs 
on a 32-bit Debian system.


Shehjar Tikoo wrote:
> I've seen a few posts in wireshark-users archive where Ulf Lamping 
> mentions incorporating support for gint64 offsets for traffic dump files.
>
> Does this imply that tshark can write pcap files using large file 
> support on Linux without the need to resort to multiple capture ring 
> files?