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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] nflog in qt and gtk

From: Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:35:47 +0100
On Friday 19 December 2014 11:55:47 Dario Lombardo wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Nope, it won't work at the moment. The problem is that NFLOG can only be
> > opened by one user which is a kernel limitation. From
> > net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c:
> >
> >         inst = instance_lookup_get(log, group_num);
> >         if (inst && inst->peer_portid != NETLINK_CB(skb).portid) {
> >                 ret = -EPERM;
> >                 goto out_put;
> >         }
> >
> >
> When wireshark-qt waits in the main screen, it shows a graph for each
> interface. Is it generated by "dumpcap -S -Z none"? When capture starts,
> those graphs are not shown anymore. Wouldn't be a solution to kill "dumpcap
> -S -Z none" when in capture and re-run it again when in home screen?

Kill statistics before starting the capture? Sounds fine to me, though I
am not sure whether it has other side-effects. The Capture -> Options
dialog is another place where these stats are visible.
-- 
Kind regards,
Peter
https://lekensteyn.nl