Re: [tcpdump-workers] tcpdump/pcap 1-of-S sampling

2007-05-26 Thread Bruce M Simpson
kevin brintnall wrote: Hi, I would like to add a feature to tcpdump/pcap to only capture 1/S packets for some positive integer S. For example, this would be useful for traffic analysis on DNS servers where it's not feasible or desirable to capture every single packet. I believe this featur

Re: [tcpdump-workers] tcpdump/pcap 1-of-S sampling

2007-05-23 Thread Guy Harris
On May 23, 2007, at 2:34 PM, kevin brintnall wrote: I would like to add a feature to tcpdump/pcap to only capture 1/S packets for some positive integer S. For example, this would be useful for traffic analysis on DNS servers where it's not feasible or desirable to capture every single pac

[tcpdump-workers] tcpdump/pcap 1-of-S sampling

2007-05-23 Thread kevin brintnall
Hi, I would like to add a feature to tcpdump/pcap to only capture 1/S packets for some positive integer S. For example, this would be useful for traffic analysis on DNS servers where it's not feasible or desirable to capture every single packet. Rather than do this in the application, I would li