Re: Sniffing1GigE interfaces without laptop crashing

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Nov 20, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Richard Bejtlich wrote:

> There's no need to use a protocol analyzer like Wireshark, Tshark, or
> even Tcpdump to just do packet capture.  You introduce more trouble
> than it's worth.

The main codepath of "tcpdump -w" is pretty lightweight - probably about as lightweight as dumpcap's.
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