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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Live capture stops suddenly

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:04:38 -0700

On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:55 PM, Chris Henderson wrote:

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 12, 2009, at 8:15 PM, Chris Henderson wrote:

Is dumpcap still running when packets stop arriving?

I started dumpcap after wireshark stopped capturing and dumpcap
staretd capturing packets.

Wireshark doesn't capture traffic itself - it runs dumpcap to do so.

If you run Wireshark to do a capture, and it stops capturing traffic, is the dumpcap that it started still running?

What happens if you try running dumpcap, or tcpdump, from a terminal
window?  Does it also stop seeing packets after a while?

dumpcap stops after a while as well.

What about tcpdump?