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authorMichael Mann <mmann78@netscape.net>2016-06-01 11:42:12 -0400
committerMichael Mann <mmann78@netscape.net>2016-06-02 11:13:42 +0000
commitcad300ec92be2b8a69fbbc42e1d117748c008241 (patch)
tree754c6bca10580a34084e3bdb42e27eb92c4f5aa3 /help
parentb6ace80977acb84c4e3a283f483d0c649553e511 (diff)
Use file extension when capturing from multiple interfaces.
Also update faq to include new temporary file format. Change-Id: Ie6c318bb359974b89ff3e268155315c22ba7c4e4 Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/15685 Petri-Dish: Michael Mann <mmann78@netscape.net> Tested-by: Petri Dish Buildbot <buildbot-no-reply@wireshark.org> Reviewed-by: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Mann <mmann78@netscape.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'help')
-rwxr-xr-xhelp/faq.py4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/help/faq.py b/help/faq.py
index 3575204fbf..429b4198ba 100755
--- a/help/faq.py
+++ b/help/faq.py
@@ -1341,11 +1341,11 @@ Windows XP and Server 2003, and
<code>\\Users\\<var>your login name</var>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp</code> on the main
system disk on Windows Vista and later, so the capture file will probably be there. If you
are capturing on a single interface, it will have a name of the form,
-<code>wireshark_&lt;fmt&gt;_&lt;iface&gt;_YYYYmmddHHMMSS_XXXXXX</code>, where
+<code>wireshark_&lt;iface&gt;_YYYYmmddHHMMSS_XXXXXX.&lt;fmt&gt;</code>, where
&lt;fmt&gt; is the capture file format (pcap or pcapng), and &lt;iface&gt; is
the actual name of the interface you are capturing on; otherwise, if you are
capturing on multiple interfaces, it will have a name of the form,
-<code>wireshark_&lt;N&gt;_interfaces_YYYYmmddHHMMSS_XXXXXX</code>, where &lt;N&gt;
+<code>wireshark_&lt;N&gt;_interfaces_YYYYmmddHHMMSS_XXXXXX.&lt;fmt&gt;</code>, where &lt;N&gt;
is the number of simultaneous interfaces you are capturing on. Please don't
send a trace file greater than 1 MB when compressed; instead, make it available
via FTP or HTTP, or say it's available but leave it up to a developer to ask