On Thursday 15 February 2007 18:43, James Ketrenos wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Thursday 15 February 2007 17:35, James Ketrenos wrote: > >> you can't update the packet capture > >> window or you'll lose packets; but you should be able to get them all if > >> you're doing a tethereal > somefile or if you turn off the update of the > >> main window. > > > > "update of the packet capture window". What's that? > > I started a simple traffic monitoring in wireshark. Nothing fancy. > > In the 'Capture Options', the only option you can set is 'Hide capture > info dialog'. If you turn on 'Update list of packets in real time' or > 'Automatic scrolling in live capture', packets get dropped. I don't > know if its a libpcap queue that fills up, if it starves the NIC, or > what--but having those turned on greatly reduces the # of packets you'll > capture. Hm, yeah. I have that turned on. But I don't see this issue when monitoring with bcm43xx hardware. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
