Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Another Windows-only sniffer: PacScope ...

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From: Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:17:16 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Guy Harris wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 3:37 PM, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> > I don't know, but on the FreeBSD platforms where I do these captures,
> > tcpdump is always there
> 
> Yes - but if Tethereal were there, would tcpdump be more efficient at 
> capturing?

Don't know. Probably not.
 
> > and rtprio helps to limit or eliminate packet drops.
> 
> Yes, but that would apply to both programs.

True.

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