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SonicOS Enhanced 4.0 Administrator Guide
If you configure automatic logging, this supersedes the setting for wrapping the buffer when full.
With automatic FTP logging, the capture buffer is effectively wrapped when full, but you also
retain all the data rather than overwriting it each time the buffer wraps.
Step 1 Navigate to the Packet Capture page in the UI. See “Accessing Packet Capture in the UI” on
page 108.
Step 2 Under Packet Capture, click Configure.
Step 3 In the Packet Capture Configuration window, click the Logging tab.
Step 4 In the FTP Server IP Address box, type the IP address of the FTP server. For example, type
10.1.2.3.
Note Make sure that the FTP server IP address is reachable by the SonicWALL appliance. An IP
address that is reachable only via a VPN tunnel is not supported.
Step 5 In the Login ID box, type the login name that the SonicWALL appliance should use to connect
to the FTP server.
Step 6 In the Password box, type the password that the SonicWALL appliance should use to connect
to the FTP server.
Step 7 In the Directory Path box, type the directory location for the transferred files. The files are
written to this location relative to the default FTP root directory. For libcap format, files are
named “packet-log--<>.cap”, where the <> contains a run number and date including hour,