Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] OT: libpcap

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From: Nathan Neulinger <nneul@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 18:51:54 -0500
PC Drew wrote:
> 
> I've run across an interesting problem in libpcap that I wondered if anyone
> else has seen.  I'm running tests sending RTP traffic every 20ms and then
> calculating jitter (which is based on the time a packet is received).  It
> seems that about 80 packets show up, evenly spaced at 20ms each, then
> there's one packet that comes in 30ms later and another 10ms later, then
> another 80 packets or so at 20ms and so on.
> 
> I've tried the same captures using snoop, and this doesn't occur.  Has
> anyone else seen anything similar with libpcap?  Or is it just my
> environment?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> PC Drew
> 
>    Be nice, or I'll replace you with a very
>    small shell script
> 
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Are you running this on a machine running in single user mode? You're
probably seeing a background job getting the cpu momentarily.

-- Nathan

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