[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

etxrab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=32687
>
> User: etxrab
> Date: 2010/05/06 08:39 AM
>
> Log:
>  Check for pcap_create
>  Using pcap create and pcap_activate should make it possible
>  to set the capture buffer size on Linux systems as well as Windows.
>  Help to implement it would be apreciated :-)
>  
>  Ref:
>  http://seclists.org/tcpdump/2009/q3/151

Some work has already been done, see:

https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=475