On 0, Dragos Ruiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you folks please also add the very critical information
> of what OS/kernel version you are referring to in these
> perfomance tests and any OS comparisons?
>
> The pcap implementations/interface to the kernel on both
> Linux and OpenBSD seems to be a moving target. For instance,
> the subsytems you attatch bpf to in OpenBSD have changed from
> 2.8 to 2.9 to 2.9-current, and you can expect different
> packet capture performance on each. I believe the
> same goes for Linux 2.2/2.4. FreeBSD seemes to not
> have been modified much lately in that area(since arguably
> they had their base pretty steady early..). but the point is
> that when talking about performance, some version
> information is very useful since these all seem to
> be moving targets... Thanks.
>
>
Sorry about that missing info. I am using Slackware 7.1 with libpcap 0.4 and
tcpdump 3.4. The Linux kernel is 2.2.19.
OpenBSD is 2.8. I haven't checked the tcpdump/libpcap version info on OpenBSD.
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