Bill,
Thanks for that.
Regards,
Henry
-----Original Message-----
From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Meier
Sent: 11 February 2010 15:35
To: Community support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] How much overhead does a Wireshark
capture file contain ?
Bill Meier wrote:
> Henry Meleg wrote:
>> So I need to measure the traffic in bytes between two endpoints. If I
>> set up Wireshark on a laptop whose interface is enabled for
>> promiscuous mode and specify a capture filter between the source and
>> destination IP addresses that I am interested in and capture to a
>> file then will that file size be an accurate reflection of the
>> traffic between the two endpoint.
>>
>> Does Wireshark add any overhead to the capture file that I need to
>> take into account by subtracting it from the captured file size to
>> get a accurate traffic figure which I require to set up bandwidth
>> management filters.
>>
>> Can anybody help ?
>>
>
Also see:
http://wiki.wireshark.org/Tools
for a list of various useful network tools.
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