RE: I would like to tcpdump and get all the packets...

From: Don Bowman (don_at_sandvine.com)
Date: 09/19/03

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    To: 'Petri Helenius' <pete@he.iki.fi>, Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:28:28 -0400

    From: Petri Helenius [mailto:pete@he.iki.fi]
    > Bruce M Simpson wrote:
    >
    > >Er, if you check this URL:
    > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/contrib/tcpdump/CHANGES
    > >
    > >Shurely you mean tcpdump 3.7.2, which is already imported
    > (by fenner, with
    > >additional hacks)?
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > I mean libpcap, which also tcpdump uses, if I´m not mistaken. Look in
    > contrib/libpcap
    >
    > Pete

    I found that increasing the bpf buffer size in libpcap
    to 256K from the default of 4K made a tremendous difference.

    --don
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