Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ring buffer without the ring

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:19:02 -0800
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:12:08PM +0000, spamcontrol2@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> ...Unless you're trying to capture data rates higher than 100mbps, or
> from media other than Ethernet, in which case Sniffer is useless for
> long-term capture.

Why is 10/100Mb Ethernet special there?  They do have gigabit Sniffers
and Sniffers do support other media.

> Do you know if there was a reason why the ring buffer was designed to
> hold all files open at the same time?  Or was it simpler to design that
> way, and eventually it was assumed that someone would implement
> something more robust?

I wasn't the creator of that code; I don't know why its creators made
the design decisions that they did.