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Debug Capture File Limit?
A technical question. Would anyone happen to know if there is a file size limit on the Orbi debug LAN/WAN capture? Using a 32GB USB stick, formatted ext4, I attempted to capture one full day of ...
It may take longer to fill up a 32Gb USB drive. Or may be dependent upon whats being captured as well.
What happens if you left it can let it capture for days or a week?
FURRYe38 wrote:It may take longer to fill up a 32Gb USB drive. Or may be dependent upon whats being captured as well.
What happens if you left it can let it capture for days or a week?
I had thought that clicking "Save Debug File" would stop the capture and the two capture files would contain ethernet packets covering the same period of time. In this case, 24 hours is about 86,400 seconds. Sure enough, the WAN capture file is very close to that (85,799) because I stopped just short of one full day. But, Wireshark reports that the LAN capture file only covers a bit over 30 minutes. The goal is not to fill the USB stick, but simply to have a USB stick that has enough space to capture a full day. And, it clearly has plenty of space left over.
It is just really frustrating when instead of doing the analysis I wanted the capture for, I am stuck trying to figure out why the Orbi captures perfectly on the WAN side and not on the LAN side.