Re: [Wireshark-dev] Open-only-once capture devices and the packet rate spark lines (was Re: nflog in qt and gtk)

2015-01-25 Thread Stephen Fisher
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 05:32:19PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote: (It would be Truly Nice if Oracle/HP/IBM provided isolated Solaris/HP-UX/AIX virtual machines, for which free-software developers could request access including root access if necessary, for build testing and run-time testing.) I

[Wireshark-dev] Open-only-once capture devices and the packet rate spark lines (was Re: nflog in qt and gtk)

2015-01-24 Thread Guy Harris
By the way, if I remember correctly, HP-UX, at least at one point, only allowed one open descriptor for a particular network device to be put into either physical promiscuous mode or SAP promiscuous (accept all packets, rather than just packets to or from a particular service access point, e.g.