On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Guy Harris wrote:
> > I know this sort of mirrors recent conversation... but it there a reason
> > these packet counts are kept using independent sets of functions
> > instead of piggybacking on some of the dissector stuff ( other than the
> > obvious which is that we don't want to do a full dissection if we
> > don't have to and we acheive not doing a full dissection by not passing
> > a proto tree and thus have not proto tree to query for this info ).
>
> That's pretty much it. We'd like to have a way of getting some simple
> capture statistics that doesn't do very much work, as the machine could
> be a bit busy shuffling packets around while capturing, so we don't want
> to add to its burden too much.
>
> (Microsoft Network Monitor normally has all sorts of meters and displays
> and 8x10 glossy color photographs with circles and arrows and paragraphs
> on the back running during a capture, but if you put it in "Dedicated
Does this mean that we are suffering from a typical case of American
blind packet capture :)
> Capture Mode" it gets rid of its main window (not just minimizes, gets
> rid of; I think that, in X11 terms, that'd be "unmapped" rather than
> "iconified") and has only a window with a count of frames captured, and
> "Stop", "Stop and View", "Pause", and "Normal Mode" buttons. I don't
> know whether we'd want to consider having a mode like that, which does
> even less work during a capture than we currently do, or not.)
>
