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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Adding Capture Engine question

From: "Luis EG Ontanon" <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:43:30 +0200
This (I think) is related to
http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1757
can you download a recent snapshot and verify if it gets rid of the problem?

if not can you open a bug for it?

Thanks

On 8/24/07, Audet, Jean-Michel <Jean-Michel.Audet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi,
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>             I am currently adding a capture engine to sniff i2c traffic.
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> I am currently adding this code into Linux using the pcap_linux mechanism
> (like Bluetooth and USB).
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> My question is (and I am not currently sure if it's Wireshark or libpcap)
> why do I get calls to my function xx_open_live each seconds (approx) during
> my capture.
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> I get calls to the function xx_read to get the packets but I was expecting a
> call to the xx_open_live function only once when the capture starts and a
> call to the function xx_close at the end.  My monitoring external hardware
> cannot be start and stop without loosing packets.
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> Thanks for your help!
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> JM
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