Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 9202] dumpcap doesn't describe platform's hardware

Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 18:14:51 +0000

Comment # 4 on bug 9202 from
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > I guess it could also be interpreated as a description of the DAG card ,NIC,
> > SS7 card or any other specalised HW used for actual packet capture rather
> > than the HW/OS of the box hosting the card or both.
> 
> But that'd probably be a comment for the IDB for the interface, not a
> comment for the SHB for the capture.  (DAG cards, alas, don't support
> select/poll, but other adapters might, as might regular network interfaces,
> especially now that BPF supports it on OS X, the last BSD-flavored UN*X to
> support select() for BPF devices, as of Lion.)

Yes that's for the IDB, sorry. We could use get_cpu_info() and get_mem_info()
on the platforms that are supported.


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