Re: [tcpdump-workers] Usage of pcap_open_live argument to_ms

2004-12-09 Thread Robert Lowe
Guy Harris wrote: On Dec 9, 2004, at 1:09 PM, Robert Lowe wrote: to_ms specifies the read timeout in milliseconds. The read timeout is used to arrange that the read not necessarily return immediately when a packet is seen, but that it wait for some amount of time to allow more packets to arrive and

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Usage of pcap_open_live argument to_ms

2004-12-09 Thread Guy Harris
On Dec 9, 2004, at 1:09 PM, Robert Lowe wrote: to_ms specifies the read timeout in milliseconds. The read timeout is used to arrange that the read not necessarily return immediately when a packet is seen, but that it wait for some amount of time to allow more packets to arrive and to read multiple

[tcpdump-workers] Usage of pcap_open_live argument to_ms

2004-12-09 Thread Robert Lowe
Hi! Regarding the to_ms argument to pcap_open_live, the pcap manpage says: -- to_ms specifies the read timeout in milliseconds. The read timeout is used to arrange that the read not necessarily return immediately when a packet is seen, but that it wait for some amount of time to allow more packets