Re: [tcpdump-workers] Buffer size question

2004-10-18 Thread Ed Maste
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 04:37:41PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote: > Including such an argument at the time the new API is introduced > obviously doesn't introduce compatibility issues for that API. :-) > (I'm actually thinking of an attribute/value list for various open > options in the API, so t

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Buffer size question

2004-10-18 Thread Guy Harris
On Oct 18, 2004, at 3:04 PM, Alexander Dupuy wrote: Guy Harris writes: Unfortunately, given that, on systems with BPF, you cannot change the buffer size after a BPF device has been bound to a network interface, "pcap_setbuff()" is unimplementable on those systems, so it's not a candidate for

[tcpdump-workers] Buffer size question

2004-10-18 Thread Alexander Dupuy
Guy Harris writes: Unfortunately, given that, on systems with BPF, you cannot change the buffer size after a BPF device has been bound to a network interface, "pcap_setbuff()" is unimplementable on those systems, so it's not a candidate for libpcap. I didn't realize it was possible to set the bu