HI,
There are some questiosn i need to ask. Why does wireshark give no delay upon 
capture even though it uses Winpcap? 
I am using windows xp for capture and i have checked the capture on ethernet 
and there seems to be no problems at all from the capture on ethernet. I have 
tried changing mintocopy and the timeout but it gives me no changes in the 
performance? Any ideas why?

BR

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> From: Gianluca Varenni <[email protected]>
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> Subject: Re: [Winpcap-users] PPP capture
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> Akif,
> 
> This is probably due to the mintocopy and timeout of WinPcap. WinPcap does 
> not deliver you the packets immediately after they are received by the 
> driver. Packets are batched in kernel mode and delivered to the receiving 
> application when
> 
> 
> -          There are at least mintocopy bytes in the kernel buffer
> 
> -          After a certain timeout
> (whatever happens first).
> 
> In order to reduce the delay, you will need to either reduce the timeout or 
> the mintocopy.
> 
> Have a nice day
> GV
> 
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Akif Usman
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:20 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Winpcap-users] PPP capture
> 
> HI,
> 
> I have installed the winpcap version 3.1 beta and i am capturing from a PPP 
> interface and it captures perfectly. Now i am trying to capture from the same 
> PPP interface using my LIBPCAP program and forward it to another Ethernet 
> interface that connects  further to a second computer (Ethernet NIC) which 
> also has wireshark running on it. When i capture from the second computer i 
> get a strange offset of 0.5 seconds after every x packets. This is very 
> strange. I dont know why wireshark is able to capture from PPP interface on 
> the first computer with proper accuracy and why my LIBPCAP program, which is 
> just forwarding the packets, is introducing a 0.5s [:-O] delay. Please help 
> me out as soon as somebody can.
> 
> Best Regards
> Fika
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> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:42:30 -0700
> From: Anton Tremsin <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Gianluca Varenni <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Winpcap-users] PPP capture
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> Akif, Gianluca,
> 
> As I mentioned in my previous messages, I have exactly the same problem 
> of delayed packages, with mintocopy set even to 0 (tried other values as 
> well). I am always sending  a set of 64 packets of 8Kbytes each (that is 
> one image data). The packets are not lost, they always arrive. However, 
> some of them come with no delay (varied number of them, sometimes 62, 
> sometimes 57, etc), while the rest of them come exactly after the delay 
> equal to the setting of the timeout, which I varied between 1 and 10000 
> milliseconds. There is no timeout reported for the packets to arrive 
> with the delay.
> 
> I will be very glad if that issue can be solved, which has probably the 
> same cause as in Akif's application.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Anton
> >
> > Akif,
> >
> > This is probably due to the mintocopy and timeout of WinPcap. WinPcap 
> > does not deliver you the packets immediately after they are received 
> > by the driver. Packets are batched in kernel mode and delivered to the 
> > receiving application when
> >
> > - There are at least mintocopy bytes in the kernel buffer
> >
> > - After a certain timeout
> >
> > (whatever happens first).
> >
> > In order to reduce the delay, you will need to either reduce the 
> > timeout or the mintocopy.
> >
> > Have a nice day
> >
> > GV
> >
> > *From:* [email protected] 
> > [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Akif Usman
> > *Sent:* Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:20 AM
> > *To:* [email protected]
> > *Subject:* [Winpcap-users] PPP capture
> >
> > HI,
> >
> > I have installed the winpcap version 3.1 beta and i am capturing from 
> > a PPP interface and it captures perfectly. Now i am trying to capture 
> > from the same PPP interface using my LIBPCAP program and forward it to 
> > another Ethernet interface that connects  further to a second computer 
> > (Ethernet NIC) which also has wireshark running on it. When i capture 
> > from the second computer i get a strange offset of 0.5 seconds after 
> > every x packets. This is very strange. I dont know why wireshark is 
> > able to capture from PPP interface on the first computer with proper 
> > accuracy and why my LIBPCAP program, which is just forwarding the 
> > packets, is introducing a 0.5s [:-O] delay. Please help me out as soon 
> > as somebody can.
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > Fika
> >
> >
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