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Open-only-once capture devices and the packet rate spark lines (was Re: nflog in qt and gtk)
From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 17:32:19 -0800
By the way, if I remember correctly, HP-UX, at least at one point, only allowed one open descriptor for a particular network device to be put into either physical promiscuous mode or "SAP promiscuous" (accept all packets, rather than just packets to or from a particular service access point, e.g. Ethertype or LLC SAP or...) mode (I forget whether it was one or the other or both), which also causes a problem with having the main screen display traffic statistics by capturing and discarding traffic. I no longer have root access to any HP-UX machines, so I can't test that. (It would be Truly Nice if Oracle/HP/IBM provided isolated Solaris/HP-UX/AIX virtual machines, for which free-software developers could request access including root access if necessary, for build testing and run-time testing.) The main OSes on which people are likely to run Wireshark with a GUI don't have that issue for regular network interfaces, but you *might* still have people running Wireshark on their Solaris/HP-UX/AIX servers with DISPLAY pointed at their desktop/laptop machines. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Re: nflog in qt and gtk Dario Lombardo (Jan 23)
- Open-only-once capture devices and the packet rate spark lines (was Re: nflog in qt and gtk) Guy Harris (Jan 24)
- Re: Open-only-once capture devices and the packet rate spark lines (was Re: nflog in qt and gtk) Stephen Fisher (Jan 25)
- Re: nflog in qt and gtk Dario Lombardo (Jan 26)
- Open-only-once capture devices and the packet rate spark lines (was Re: nflog in qt and gtk) Guy Harris (Jan 24)