Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal capabilities

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:41:37 -0700

On Jul 19, 2006, at 5:26 PM, Bryant Keller wrote:


Can Ethereal be overwhelmed by too many UDP packets on the network?
Yes, in the sense that the packets might be arriving too fast for it to read from the capture mechanism, filling up the queue of packets for it to read. If that queue fills up, the capture mechanism will drop subsequent packets. (That's just the capture mechanism dropping them; the networking stack won't drop packets from the main code path for packet input just because some capture mechanism drops them.) 
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