Re: [tcpdump-workers] BPF vs DLPI performance

2005-05-11 Thread Guy Harris
alexander medvedev wrote: Which of the two (BPF or DLPI) will generally give you better performance? Particularly, i am looking to reduce the number of dropped packets. Will DLPI capture even report captured/dropped packet count? On most OSes, one of them won't capture any packets whatsoever, as mo

Re: [tcpdump-workers] BPF vs DLPI performance

2005-05-11 Thread Rick Jones
alexander medvedev wrote: Hallo, Which of the two (BPF or DLPI) will generally give you better performance? Particularly, i am looking to reduce the number of dropped packets. Will DLPI capture even report captured/dropped packet count? Which piece of string is longer?-) Saying "DLPI" in and of its

[tcpdump-workers] BPF vs DLPI performance

2005-05-11 Thread alexander medvedev
Hallo, Which of the two (BPF or DLPI) will generally give you better performance? Particularly, i am looking to reduce the number of dropped packets. Will DLPI capture even report captured/dropped packet count? Thanks, -alexm 10:58 11/05/2005 - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://li