Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] OT: libpcap

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From: PC Drew <drewpc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:44:17 -0600
I've run across an interesting problem in libpcap that I wondered if anyone else has seen. I'm running tests sending RTP traffic every 20ms and then calculating jitter (which is based on the time a packet is received). It seems that about 80 packets show up, evenly spaced at 20ms each, then there's one packet that comes in 30ms later and another 10ms later, then another 80 packets or so at 20ms and so on.

I've tried the same captures using snoop, and this doesn't occur. Has anyone else seen anything similar with libpcap? Or is it just my environment?

Thanks.

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