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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Auto-save packets to file

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 13:07:35 +0200
Hi,

First of all you should put these things to the user list, more chance of a response.

Secondly, look into using dumpcap from the command line to do the capture for you.

Thanks,
Jaap

On 05/13/2010 11:43 AM, Ari Yoskovitz wrote:
Hi.
  I am working with massive amounts of packets. At some point, Wireshark
starts to choke, or there is a warning about low virtual memory.

I would like to tell Wireshark to auto-save the packets to a file once
in a while, and clear the memory so it can handle more packets.
Of course, I will later need some way to re-load all the data and still
not have any memory problems. MAYBE it can be done somehow with the
capture filter, namely to load only what I need from the created file.

Is there such (or a similar)  feature?

Thanks.