Re: More than one capture

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:58:19PM +0100, Stephan Knabe wrote:
> I was programming an application which does a kind of packet-accounting
> using libpcap. But taking a look at the results I am getting, I see a few
> strange things. Because the box runs in an large switched environment with
> a lot of network-services, it might be that these results are really true.

What sort of strange things are you seeing?

> Can I run a second application doing a capture on my linux-box or
> will they concurrent in any way? So could I run my own
> capturing-application AND tcpdump on the same system without loosing
> info or packets?

It should be possible to run more than one packet-capturing application
at the same time on most, if not all, OSes that support libpcap; it
should, in particular, be possible to do so on Linux.
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