Hi Tobias,

Thanks a lot.

Best Regards,
Ivan Cheng
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tobias Klauser [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 3:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Ivan Cheng
Subject: Re: [netsniff-ng] Can the netsniff-ng limit the number of rotated dump 
files that get created?

Hi Ivan

On 2015-08-18 at 12:14:36 +0200, Ivan Cheng <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Expects,
> 
> Can the netsniff-ng support below feature which is extracted from the 
> tcpdump manpage:
> 
>        -W     Used in conjunction with the -C option, this will limit the 
> number of files created to the  specified  number,  and
>               begin overwriting files from the beginning, thus 
> creating a 'rotating' buffer.  In addition, it will name the files
>               with enough leading 0s to support the maximum number of 
> files, allowing them to sort correctly.
> 
>               Used in conjunction with the -G option, this will limit 
> the number of rotated dump files that get created,  exiting
>               with  status  0  when  reaching  the limit. If used with 
> -C as well, the behavior will result in cyclical files per
>               timeslice.

No, this is currently not possible with netsniff-ng. However, I think it should 
be fairly easy to implement. I created a github issue about this [1] and will 
work on it as soon as I found some time.

[1] https://github.com/netsniff-ng/netsniff-ng/issues/147

Thanks
Tobias

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