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]>
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>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
>
>?
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