In some email I received from J.Smith, sie wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > Darren wrote: > > > > I think you're using the wrong tool for that job. > > > > Why ? tcpdump *is* supposed to dump tcp/ip packets that it has sniffed on > the network to a file, right ? So why would it be so difficult to let > tcpdump make that 'packet-capture-file' a rotating file, instead of an > ever-increasing-in-size file ? Ive worked with some commercial packet > sniffers in the past that let you do exactly the same thing, some even > include an option to 'stop' the capture when the filesize reaches X mb, or > 'wrap' the file, and throw out the oldest entry's.
Yes and I've seen them. The approximate equivalent is ethereal, I believe, so maybe that should be doing the log rotation ? tcpdump is (primarily) a command line tool for assisting in diagnosing network problems. at least I think it is meant to be one, rather than the swiss army knife of sniffers. Darren - This is the TCPDUMP workers list. It is archived at http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/index.html To unsubscribe use mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe
