On May 21, 2011, at 1:17 AM, Jakub Zawadzki wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:25:38PM +0000, Chris Maynard wrote: >> And while I'm at it ... another feature that I think would be nice to have >> would >> be to be able to specify capturing on an interface that doesn't yet exist, >> such >> as ppp0. For my USB/PPP capturing, currently to get a capture of all traffic >> over that interface, I either have to use usbmon or ppp's record option to >> generate a pppdump file. (OK, this last one isn't really specific to >> capturing >> on multiple interfaces, but it's related to capturing so ...) > > I think it'd be nice feature to start, pause or stop captuing on any > interface at any time. That would need to be controlled via the Wireshark GUI. I think we'll focus on getting the base feature in the GUI first... > > But it'd be easier to implement if instead of running N-threads single > dumpcap we run N dumpcaps... No sure. you can create threads and kill them. However, dumpcap then can not give up the privileges after the initial startup phase...
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