CVS log entries from 28.12.2004 (Tue) 10:06:45 - 29.12.2004 (Wed) 10:06:48 GMT
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Author: guy
File: tcpdump/tcpdump.1; Revisions: 1.167
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durung_lulus wrote:
I want to make simple sniffer, but having question in mind,
Could we loose any packet that we try to grab with
pcap_loop/pcap_dispatch?
Yes.
And if we do, what are the causes?
It'd be caused by the sniffer not being able to read packets fast enough
that whatever buffer the OS
Hi, sory if I'm asking again since I'm rather confuse with the
explanation.
You said about buffer, could you explain about what this buffer is?
Is it pcap reads from this buffer as soon the packet arrive or pcap
reads the buffer after the buffer full, is it having any correlation
with to_ms
