Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] performance with ethereal and pcap

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From: "Pimpalkar, Sudhir" <spimpalkar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 12:56:29 -0500
Capture process does not wait for decode to finish. It just keep on writing raw packets to a file.

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[mailto:ethereal-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Andreas Sikkema
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 9:19 AM
To: Ethereal development
Subject: RE: [Ethereal-dev] performance with ethereal and pcap


>  I have modeled this application in a very simple way. There 
> are two processes, one for capturing and other for decoding 
> H323 packets. There is a loopback socket connection between 
> these two processes for IPC(inter process communication).  

Make sure the capture process doesn't have to wait for the 
decoding to finish before handling another captured packet.

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Andreas Sikkema                       BBned NV
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