Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] PacketReceivePacket error out on allocating buffer gerater
On Jul 28, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Pushkar Tiwari wrote:
> I have written a piece of code to capture packets at very high speed. I have writen my code using Packet API.
> To gain better performance I tried allocating large buffer using "PacketSetBuff" API. PacketSetBuff doesn't return any error on allocating buffer greater than 4MB.
> But when I call PacketReceivePacket to retrieve the packet, the call fails.
>
> Is there any restriction on the buffer that can be allocated? Is there some other wy through which we can allocate higher buffer and get the better performance.
>
> Whats is the kernel buffer size that winpcap allocate by default?
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