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

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:46:55 -0700

On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 3:37 PM, Richard Sharpe wrote:

I don't know, but on the FreeBSD platforms where I do these captures,
tcpdump is always there

Yes - but if Tethereal were there, would tcpdump be more efficient at capturing?

and rtprio helps to limit or eliminate packet drops.

Yes, but that would apply to both programs.