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Date:      Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:28:28 -0400
From:      Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
To:        'Petri Helenius' <pete@he.iki.fi>, Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
Cc:        fenner@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: I would like to tcpdump and get all the packets...
Message-ID:  <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337035E37AB@mail.sandvine.com>

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From: Petri Helenius [mailto:pete@he.iki.fi]
> Bruce M Simpson wrote:
>=20
> >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=20
> (by fenner, with
> >additional hacks)?
> >
> > =20
> >
> I mean libpcap, which also tcpdump uses, if I=B4m not mistaken. Look =
in=20
> contrib/libpcap
>=20
> 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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