On Thursday 15 February 2007 19:07, James Ketrenos wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > 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. > > > > I had read about it on a libpcap forum a while ago (it wasn't an ipw2x00 > issue that was being discussed); I never looked into the root cause of > it since I figured it was 'just the way it was'. > > If you turn it off, does the # of packets captured improve w/ the ipw2200? No. packet (beacon) sequence numbers from my AP are: 201, 202, 204, 205, 206, 209... Just as an example. -- 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
