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 ----- Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
