[tcpdump-workers] Byte count instead of packet count?

2007-02-07 Thread Olof Backing
Well, I've tried to search the 'net but came up failry empty handed with any decent solution for trying to use a byte counter instead of a packet dito. Since we all know that the packet length varies a lot, I thought that I wanted to have a byte size delimiter on my savefile. In that way I

[tcpdump-workers] Live capture with round-robin savefiles?

2007-02-04 Thread Olof Backing
Hi! I have been digging into the arena of loggin with pcap - which I like BTW. Generally this generates *a lot* of data (savefiles) over time, so I thought about using some kind of round-robin technique to stay moderate on disk. Should I go for RRDTool or are there any more lean methods? O