Hi,
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Guy Harris
<guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...if you're running on a UN*X with an /etc/rc.local. That obviously won't help on Windows.
This is true, I was wrong in assuming that the user is using UN*X systems.
As others have noted, it's not clear that Wireshark - or even the non-GUI TShark - would be the right tool for this purpose. If somebody wants to record network *usage*, even running dumpcap or "tcpdump -w" might be overkill - capturing traffic won't just give them the amount of network traffic, it'll give you the full *contents* of the network traffic, so if they use, for example, 250GB/month of network traffic, capturing that traffic will consume at least 250GB/month of disk space....
You are right, I should have suggested the non-GUI option, especially if the user is planning on caputring traffic over a reasonably long period of time.
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Thanks and Regards,
Hrishikesh Murali
