--On Tuesday, February 01, 2005 02:33:07 PM -0500 Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

I just discovered that there is a port of libpcap.  Does anybody know
if it performs better than the pcap that comes with FreeBSD?

Why? Are you having problems with it?

No. I was testing ntop and the port offers the option of installing the ports version of libpcap, so I thought I'd ask.

The reason there is a port at all is to support people who might be
looking for more recent features than the version in the tree.
At the moment, I'm not sure there are any significant differences;
speed won't be different, though.

Thanks. That's what I was wondering. I read the pkg-message file and the pkg-descr file, so I knew it had additional features, but there was no mention of speed improvements.


Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu
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