On May 6, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Gerald Combs wrote:

> Michael Tüxen wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm implementing the support of simultaniously
>> capturing from multiple interfaces in dumpcap.
>> The first step, the support of writing in pcapng is done.
>>
>> Now I need to be able to specify multiple interfaces
>> on the command line and also provide interface
>> specific options. I think something like
>>
>> dumpcap -n -i lo0 -f udp -s 100 -y whatever -i en0 -s 0 -f sctp - y
>> whatever
>>
>> should be possible. So I would like to require that you
>> need to specify the -i options before -f, -s, and -y.
>> The values specified by -f, -s, and -y only apply to
>> the interface specified before using the -i option.
>> It is also required to specify -n for using pcapng.
>>
>> What do you think? Is this acceptable?
>
> What happens if you specify a -f/-s/-y option only once with multiple
> interfaces, e.g.
>
>  dumpcap -i en0 -f udp -i en1
>
> Would "-f udp" apply to both interfaces or just en1?
According to my initial suggestion you would use defaults for en1,
which means no capture filter...
>
>
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