Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Problem running 0.5.0 on Redhat 5.2

[gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gilbert Ramirez Jr.)]

As Dennis Edmonds said:
> 
> Is this still a problem with the upcoming 2.2 kernel?  Network Flight Recorder
> has a similar problem when running under Linux, even resulting in packet loss. 
> However, people from the linux-kernel development group have reassured the NFR
> people that this will not be a problem in 2.2.  I know they have significantly
> reworked the networking code in the new kernel series, but can anyone confirm
> if this problem is still present in the 2.1xx series?  I really should just go
> ahead and compile a new development kernel, but I just haven't had time lately.
> 

I would think, but without even having looked at NFR, that they are
referring to the Linux Socket Filter option in 2.2, which is equivalent to
the Berkeley Packet Filter except that it filters on a socket instead of a
device. LSF provides a BPF engine, so once libpcap is patched correctly, a
different section of code in libpcap will be used to do filtering, which
could remove that timeout problem.

Just a guess,

--gilbert

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