Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Truly infinite capture

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From: faerber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Johannes Faerber)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 18:04:50 +0100 (MET)
On Dec 13,  8:36, McNutt, Justin M. wrote:
> Since I've got all unix (Linux) machines, ...

I hear that FreeBSD is preferable for packet sniffing (packet filtering
on kernel level?). Then I hear that linux 2.4 will catch up here. Does
anybody know details? Is FreeBSD or Linux better to run ethereal on?

Regards,
Johannes

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