[tcpdump-workers] Buffer size question

Guy Harris writes: Unfortunately, given that, on systems with BPF, you cannot change the buffer size after a BPF device has been bound to a network interface, pcap_setbuff() is unimplementable on those systems, so it's not a candidate for libpcap. I didn't realize it was possible to set the

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Buffer size question

On Oct 18, 2004, at 3:04 PM, Alexander Dupuy wrote: Guy Harris writes: Unfortunately, given that, on systems with BPF, you cannot change the buffer size after a BPF device has been bound to a network interface, pcap_setbuff() is unimplementable on those systems, so it's not a candidate for

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Buffer size question

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 04:37:41PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote: Including such an argument at the time the new API is introduced obviously doesn't introduce compatibility issues for that API. :-) (I'm actually thinking of an attribute/value list for various open options in the API, so that