Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Decoding packets while writing to file with te thereal

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From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:38:37 +0930 (CST)
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Eichert, Diana wrote:

> Hi
> 
> As the person who contributed the "-q" switch I think tethereal needs 
> the ability to write nothing to stdout when capturing.  If you try to 
> capture packets on a Gig interface you'll see where the overhead of 
> writing to stdout effects the reliability of the capture, specifically 
> in the number of dropped packets.

I tend to avoid [t]ethereal when capturing on GigE and use tcpdump with -s 
200 or some such (unless I need all 1500 bytes, which is not often), so I 
can avoid any dropped packets.

Regards
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