Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] packet drop

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From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:34:03 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, rupesh gautam wrote:

>
>I want to improve packet drop in ethereal....can any one help me in these
>questions.
>
>1 What is ethereal packet capturing mechanism....

It uses libpcap (or winpcap on Windows) as does tcpdump and the Windows
equivalent (Windump or something).

>2 How Can we improve ethereal for less packet drop

Ummm, I don't use Ethereal for packet capture. Rather, I use tcpdump and
give it higher priority if needed. (Actually, I do use it under Windows
for packet capture, but that is another story).

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com