Re: [tcpdump-workers] Changing the savefiles produces packet loss

2006-04-04 Thread Guy Harris
(blah blah blah original reply sent from the wrong address blah blah blah text to fool the duplicate message detector blah blah blah blah). On Apr 3, 2006, at 6:20 AM, David Rosal wrote: It would help if that would be any way to close the old file asynchronously, but I guess that pcap_dump_c

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Changing the savefiles produces packet loss

2006-04-03 Thread David Rosal
David Rosal wrote: Hello. I've been capturing heavy traffic with tcpdump. No packets are dropped except when the savefiles are rotated. I know that because I use a modified version of tcpdump-3.9.4 that prints statistics every minute. My question is, is it normal to loose packets when closi

[tcpdump-workers] Changing the savefiles produces packet loss

2006-04-03 Thread David Rosal
Hello. I've been capturing heavy traffic with tcpdump. No packets are dropped except when the savefiles are rotated. I know that because I use a modified version of tcpdump-3.9.4 that prints statistics every minute. My question is, is it normal to loose packets when closing and opening the s