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

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From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:11:31 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Graeme Hewson wrote:

> Richard Sharpe wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> Any particular reason for using tcpdump rather than tethereal?  The
> latter might be better suited to someone used to ethereal (e.g., default
> snapshot length is higher, certainly enough to capture full-length
> Ethernet packets).

tcpdump is usually on the machines I capture packets from, and it is lean,
even compared with tethereal.

Richard
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