I would like to tcpdump and get all the packets...

Don Bowman don at sandvine.com
Thu Sep 18 15:28:37 PDT 2003


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