Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Another Windows-only sniffer: PacScope ...

[Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Guy Harris wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 3:05 PM, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> > OK, I am glad to be proven wrong, but personally, because I am grabbing
> > big captures from GigE links, I typically use tcpdump to grab them and
> > then analyse them in Ethereal.
> 
> Is tcpdump any better than Tethereal at that?  With the "-q" flag, it 
> shouldn't be - if it is, that's arguably a bug.

I don't know, but on the FreeBSD platforms where I do these captures, 
tcpdump is always there and rtprio helps to limit or eliminate packet 
drops.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com