Re: How much overhead does a Wireshark capture file contain ?

["Henry Meleg" <hmeleg () nortel com>]

Bill,

Thanks for that.


Regards,
 
Henry 
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[mailto:wireshark-users-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Bill Meier
Sent: 11 February 2010 15:35
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Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] How much overhead does a Wireshark
capture file contain ?

Bill Meier wrote:
> Henry Meleg wrote:
> > So I need to measure the traffic in bytes between two endpoints. If I

> > set up Wireshark on a laptop whose interface is enabled for 
> > promiscuous mode and specify a capture filter between the source and 
> > destination IP addresses that I am interested in and capture to a 
> > file then will that file size be an accurate reflection of the 
> > traffic between the two endpoint.
> >  
> > Does Wireshark add any overhead to the capture file that I need to 
> > take into account by subtracting it from the captured file size to 
> > get a accurate traffic figure which I require to set up bandwidth 
> > management filters.
> >  
> > Can anybody help ?
> >  

Also see:

http://wiki.wireshark.org/Tools


for a list of various useful network tools.


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