[Windump] problem with -C option in WinDump

Loris Degioanni loris.degioanni at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 10:37:24 PDT 2005


I confirm the problem. This is a known bug, due to limitations in MS 
CRTs. It will be fixed in the upcoming 3.9.3.

Loris


Robert Balfour wrote:
 > I am using WinDump 3.8.3, which I understand should be equivalent to
 > tcpdump 3.8.3.
 >
 > I am trying to use the -C option to limit the file size that I am
 > capturing raw packets in (using the -w option) to a reasonable size, and
 > let windump number additional files sequentially, just like I have
 > always done in tcpdump.
 >
 > For testing, I set it to -C 1 (1MB file size limit), and it blew right
 > by this 1MB filesize limit without stopping and capturing more packets
 > in a new sequentially numbered file.
 >
 > Is there a problem with WinDump supporting this feature, or am I doing
 > something wrong.
 >
 > Thanks for your help.
 >
 >
 > Bob.



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