Hi Daniel, If you are running on wondows FAT32 disk partition, that is the limitation. Try NTFS. Regards, SL Saw
>From: Jeff Morriss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Community support list for Wireshark ><[email protected]> >To: Community support list for Wireshark <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] 2 gig limit on mergecap >Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:51:11 +0800 > > > >Daniel Goolsby wrote: > > I sifted through some of the archives but couldn't find anything whether > > this was going to be fixed. I started capturing all port 80 traffic.. > > every hour i send that tcpdump to another machine, so at the end of the > > day i wanted to merge all the traffic together in one nasty port 80 > > tcpdump file. > > > > regardless, mergecap stops at 2g. I made sure and compiled merge on a > > Sparc Sun box, i also recompiled zlib to make sure it was at least > > compiled on a 64bit machine- no telling if it had any real effect. > > > > regardless, it still stops after the 2 gig limit has been reached on the > > new dump file i'm trying to create. Are there any other tools that can > > merge tcpdump files that anyone knows of that doesn't have this limit? > > > > I could probably 'tcpreplay' the individual files on an interface that > > isn't being used, and tcpdump that one, but that's the only workaround > > i've thought up so far. > > > > Any suggestions/comments? > >One other thought is: what will you do with a capture file > 2 Gb big? >Are you aware that Wireshark needs a lot of memory to open large capture >files: > >http://wiki.wireshark.org/KnownBugs/OutOfMemory > >? >_______________________________________________ >Wireshark-users mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users _________________________________________________________________ Share your latest news with your friends with the Windows Live Spaces friends module. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mk _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
